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- From: darling@cellar.org (Thomas Darling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon030 vs. Falcon040
- Message-ID: <7a2XqB2w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:38:41 GMT
- References: <10232@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
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- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
-
- > 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
-
- The only thing I just can't abide is that one-piece 1040 case (I'm currently
- a Mega 2 guy). If I'm happy with the MIDI software I see for the Falcon,
- I'll likely buy one and stick it into a tower case.
-
- > 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.
-
- This is the thing to remember. Even a 16MHz 030 is a real powerhouse. The
- world's finest MIDI sequencing software, Notator 3.1, runs superbly on an
- 8MHz 68000. Even when you add digital audio recording, I can't imagine
- 16MHz 030 having any trouble with these kinds of applications at all.
-
- > 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!).
-
- Luckily, I already have a 44Meg removeable SCSI drive, so I think I'm set
- for basic operation. Now all I'll need is a nice 1-Gig drive, and I'll be in
- business for some serious audio recording/editing.
-
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