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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why did CBM even bother with the 600?
- Message-ID: <36685@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:19:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.205658.11391@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 40
- Keywords: 1200, cool, 600, Nintendo-croud-pleaser
-
- In article <1992Nov4.205658.11391@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> pmancini@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Mancini) writes:
- >
- > CBM states that they are releasing the A600 for the home
- > computer user and the A1200 for the power home computer user. I think
- > it's a waste of time IMHO. The problem is that the A600 relies on
- > technology that CBM won't (or at least shouldn't) spend time advancing
- > or supporting.
-
- The part you're missing is that we've been shipping the A600 in Europe
- for almost a 9 months now, so it's already a successful product, not
- something we just finished and are about to release.
-
- The software base for the A600 is no different than the A500, so I'd say
- it's pretty neutral in the "advancing/supporting" category.
-
- I wouldn't mind having an "AGA" version of the A600, but it would have
- very little to differentiate it from the A1200. On the other hand, the
- A600/A1200 make a pretty nice pair if positioned correctly.
-
- > I was joking with One of the Commodore reps the other day at a
- > desk top video conference here in Boston last week. He said that what
- > probably happened was the tech crew was working on AA and didn't let
- > upper management know how close to completion they were until just after
- > they released the A600. (tongue in cheek mind you).
-
- He's confused, when the A600 was done, "AGA" was in the "someday" category,
- with the primary target being something like the A3000/A4000.
-
- > So, CBM, where am I wrong? Who is going to buy A600's when CDTV
- > and A1200 exist now?
-
- People who find it adequate to their needs/desires at whatever the price
- ends up to be. We sold ~3,000,000 A500's with less memory, no PCMCIA
- memory/IO expansion or internal hard disk. The A600 may lack the graphics
- punch of the A500, but I wouldn't write it off in a big hurry.
-
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