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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:22:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bx8t19.699@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <mwm.2ik3@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <1992Nov04.122942.27114@NeoSoft.com> <mwm.2j5b@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
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- In article <mwm.2j5b@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us
- (Mike Meyer) gets the world's greatest "missing the point" award:
- >> The 1000 doesn't count. It's got the most conservative mechanical design I've
- >> seen in a personal computer in ages. It's like comparing a Volvo to an Escort
- >> and complaining that the Volvo costs more for the same performance figures.
-
- > So? Which sells more, the Volvo or the Escort?
-
- Geeze, Mike, you completely missed the point. Let's try that again:
-
- The 1000 experience seems to have soured CBM on Pizza-box
- designs. This is unfortunate, because the problems with the
- 1000 had nothing to do with the Pizza-box configuration. In
- particular, the extremely conservative mechanical design
- greatly increased the cost of the unit: it's a "volvo" model,
- and a cheaper "escort" model (still in the pizza-box "sedan"
- design, rather than the console "hatchback") would do much
- better.
-
- Christ, the last thing we want is more inflated prices.
-
- > This is all based on the hypothesis that CBM is selling low-end
- > machines,
-
- This *is* a low-end machine I'm talking about. The 386SX boxes are the
- low-end of the PC market.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- `-_-' "Meg÷lelted mßr ma a farkasodat ?"
- 'U` "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
- Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
-