Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:37:04 GMT
Message-ID: <Bu76Hu.3q1@tik.vtt.fi>
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>Unofficially officially I've have heard from a good source that the Amiga 500 in the US will be discontinued and replaced with the 600 and 600HD (40MB) version.
In Europe I have so far seen only 600HDs with 20 MB disk.
Does anyone know what is inside the 600s ? Is it the same computer as
500 in a smaller case (and thus with worse keyboard), or is it better
or worse ? For me it seems strange that they still use the about ten
year old 68000 processor with the same low clock frequency as for the
500. I also think that a computer of the size of the 600 should have
been portable with its own screen. In that case a slightly old fashioned
processor and 20 MB HD would even had been acceptable. Now it still seem
to use the same clumsy external power supply as the 500. When will a
portable (= battery driven) Amiga be available ? The only reason why
the 600 still is of some interest is that HDs for the 500 are both