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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac II's for sale??? Why??
Summary: This is getting silly.
Message-ID: <32312@auc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 89 18:34:31 GMT
References: <393@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <23681@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
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In article <23681@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
>< Has anyone noticed, that in misc.forsale.  MANY used Mac II's are being sold.
>..
>< I see only a handful of used Amigas being sold...What does this tell you???
>
>It tells me first of all that Apple sold more Macs last year than IBM sold 
>PS/2s.

>        It tells me second that there are fewer Amigas being sold than you
>can shake a stick at.

Wrong.  There are certainly less Amigas sold than Macs and IBM PS/2s (in the
US), but don't imply that only a few Amigas are being sold.  That's just not
true.

>                       It tells me third that the Mac II is considered 
>obsolete technology in Appleland, whereas the 2000 is closer to state of the
>art in Amigaland.

That's not true, either.  Is the Mac II considered obsolete technology or
is it overpriced for what it does compared to the newer Macs?

Also, state of the art in "Amigaland" is a 68030 system with 68882 running
at 25Mhz.  State of the art in "Amigaland" was on the 68020 processors for
awhile before that.

While it's true that you can't say that the Amiga is superior to the Mac
just because more Macs are being sold over the net, you also can't correctly
base judgements of the relative states-of-the-art, or amount of sales
of the two machines based solely on this same information.


If the person who posted the original article REALLY wants an answer, I'll
try my best.  From what I've heard, Apple has basically said that there is
not much reason to buy an original Mac II anymore, since you can get much better
performance out of slightly more expensive 68030 Macs.

Do we REALLY need to continue this discussion?


Rodney
-- 
"We may have come over here in different ships,
 but we're all in the same boat now."   --   Jesse Jackson

Rodney Ricks,   Morehouse College