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From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
Message-ID: <0YkTciy00V4FA0UVUx@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 89 15:24:30 GMT
Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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The 500 is a very good machine for it's price and I think that CA will sell a
a lot of them, however the 2000 is not such a good deal.  Yes it offers the
expandability, but the cost is too high for the power it delivers.  Right
now the 2000 is running at about $1400, for $1000 I can get a 16Mhz 2Mb
AT clone, for the $400 I could get a really good graphics card, DOS, and
some other softwware.  Granted that IBM stuff is not as user friendly, and
you don't get multi-tasking, but you get more speed more memory, better
graphics resolution, and a stronger base of productivity software, plus
a lot more (and cheaper) hardware to expand your expandable machine.  If
the 2000 was priced at $1000 (after discounts) then the 2000 could compete
pretty well, and the 2000HD and 2500 stack up even worse because 386 machines
are getting CHEAP, I can get a 25Mhz 386 for $1800, probabily $2000 for a
package deal with 40MB HD, that's $1000 less then the 2500, with that $1000
you could get lots of stuff (a pretty nice A500 system in fact).  So unless
CA shifts down the price on the 2000 models, then they are going to have some
problems moving units.
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