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- From: dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas)
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.183914.24556@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:39:14 GMT
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- In article <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return. I'll admit
- >that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
- >it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.
- >
- >Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?
-
- Depends very much on the price.
- Let's list the disadvantages:
- No 16bit sound (competition, Falcon)
- No SVGA gfx (competitin, clones)
- Limited upgrade path from A500
- (competition, Amiga)
- Keyboard-computer single case
- (competition, clones)
- 680E20, against 68030
- (competition, Falcon)
- smaller, less capable floppies
- (competition, everyone else)
-
- Now, we have to weigh these disadvantages against the competition's
- disadvantages. I think we come up pretty much a draw (more or less) and
- the deciding factor will be price. If an A1200 WITH a 40meg harddrive
- was $400, it is an outstanding value, and the above limitations could
- be understood by the obvious target market.
-
- If an A1200 with a 40meg harddrive and without a 1960 runs for $700, cheap
- 386 clones (with detached keyboards, reasonable floppies, cheap VGA
- monitors included, etc.) run for about that much, and the A1200 becomes
- much less attractive.
-
- It is very much up to marketing whether this machine makes sense or not
- to have built (with this feature set).
-
- That said, the A600 is worth about $150 in my book, and as I'm pretty
- sure Cmdre isn't going to start selling it at that price point, it was a
- mistake to have made it.
- David C. Navas dnavas@oracle.com
- Working for, but not speaking on behalf of, Oracle Corp.
-