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- From: laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: worthless Amiga's(?) (Was Re: amiga 500 discontinue)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.220317.10768@uni-paderborn.de>
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- Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
- References: <1992Sep12.4247.19570@dosgate> <1992Sep14.061227.3025@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:03:17 GMT
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- kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep12.4247.19570@dosgate> "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com> writes:
- >>
- >> Now that the Amiga 4000 has been released with a Suggested Retail price of
- >>$3699, we should be seeing a dramatic drop in the price of an Amiga 3000.
- >>The A3000 could very will sell for under $2000 by christmas. Not a $1200
- >>machine but very competitive power machine at an affordable price!
-
- > After hearing how cool the AGA chipset is, and that it won't be in any old models, I am pissed. I spent $3600 for A3000T/030 and 1950 only a month
- >ago (educational). Now I find an A4000 will be about the same price, and my
- >(formerly) top-of-the-line Amiga is probably worth about $2000.
-
- > Well, if I have to pay more than $1500 to power up to the equivalent
- >A4000T, all I can do is "Send in the clones...". I sure as hell am fed up.
-
- I have really problems to understand this attitude....
-
- o There were enough rumours floating around....it's your fault
-
- o If you want a new faster PC you must also get a new one
-
- o In Europe there was never a PowerUp yet
-
- o I think it's annoying how such wheenies flame Commo now
- for the first *real* new machine(only gfx) who flamed Commo
- for years that they haven't done anything new.
- If you would be fair you can say that you like to see a
- new Amiga but you've expected better gfx and sound.
-
- o If you want to have an evolution(Not the SCSI-Controller:-B)
- you must accept radical changes.
-
-
-
- Regards...though i think this was said many times but not enough
- i think.
-
- --
- Ralph Schmidt laire@uni-paderborn.de
- University of Paderborn (Germany)
-