Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Obese Agnus in 1000 Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 89 18:16:22 GMT References: <1765@ucqais.uc.edu> <11359@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 54 In-reply-to: dbk@teroach.UUCP's message of 1 Aug 89 23:18:36 GMT In article <11359@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> dbk@teroach.UUCP (Dave Kinzer) writes: I had great hopes until In article <1765@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes: :Talked to Greg Tibbs yesterday and he said the Obese Agnus for the :A1000 should be ready in about 60-90 days. He is going with :a commercial product, and the price should be around $600 for :a fully populated board (Agnus, 1 meg memory, clock, etc..). For $600 why would I buy this instead of an A500 with warrenty, dealer support, etc. Doesn't make sense. I can't imagine what you are complaining about. After adding the cost of the board, 1.3 ROM, Fat Agnus chip, 1 MB memory (using 1 MB DRAM's if I remember correctly), and the clock chip (did I leave anything out?) I would say that $600 is a reasonable price for everything. I do hope the board is available with nothing on it as well, so that we can pick and choose the features we want to populate it with (if that is possible). Why would you buy this instead of an A500 with warranty and dealer support? * The A1000 has a detachable keyboard, and doesn't look ugly. Ergonomically, it was the best designed of the three machines. * An A1000 with this configuration and no external expansion would have 1.5 MB RAM (1 MB CHIP, .5 MB FAST) verus 1 MB CHIP RAM on the 500. * The A1000 with this board can use KickStart or ROM. The 500 can't. * The A1000 gets a subset video slot, so like the A2000 you can use a FlickerFixer. The 500 doesn't offer this feature. * The A1000 has a beefy power supply that doesn't self destruct like the one on the A500. * Some of us still love our A1000's and don't want to surrender them to obsolescence just yet, or buy a second Amiga to get the new features of the ECS. Is that enough reasons for you? Personally, I can't wait for it to be available. My check will be in the mail. --M -- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM