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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Falcon030 vs. Falcon040
- Message-ID: <10232@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:39:48 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- With the price of a Falcon030 at $800, the best option is to buy an 030 as
- soon as possible, beef it up with whatever monitor, memory and harddisk you
- can afford, then upgrade to an 040 if needed later - you'll only be losing
- on the $800 - everything else would be re-usable on the 040 (one would assume).
- So, you sell your 030 for $500 to the neighbor to hook up to a TV and play
- the cool games (which the brat has been playing ever since you bought
- the 030). $300 loss, max - and who knows, you may find the 16MHz 030 quite
- sufficient - after all you've gotten along fine with a machine with one
- quarter of the abilities for some time now, probably without a blitter.
-
- I've already bought my hard-disk for the Falcon (okay, so I lose a bit
- more, because I had to buy an ICD interface to use it for now on my ST),
- so only memory and monitor are concerns (I wish now that I'd bought a
- Multi-sync rather than my colour monitor!).
-
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