Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!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: Amiga @ Comdex Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 11:37:29 GMT References: <5232@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 36 In-reply-to: pa1158@sdcc13.ucsd.edu's message of 18 Nov 89 10:08:17 GMT >>>>> On 18 Nov 89 10:08:17 GMT, pa1158@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Viet Ho) said: viet> I was under the impression that viet> Commodore was going to premeire the A3000 viet> at this week's Comdex. Well, I guess not. viet> They showed their A2630 68030 card. My viet> friends who went (had to stay here for viet> midterms:-( ) said, Commdore did a poor viet> showing compared to Atari, who had a flashy viet> booth demoing their laptop Atari, new 68030 viet> Atari, with a new chipset. They also showed viet> some genlocking devices. A working machine on my desktop is much better than vaporware promises from a company which has a demonstrated track record for shafting its customers. Commodore has been excellent in shipping the products it announces, even if they arrive later than all of us would like. viet> Oh wells, but CBM better get their image viet> straight at these shows. Where's my laptop viet> Amiga? A laptop Amiga would be a dream come true for me. I would find some sort of laptop box very useful, but I would rather not sink the money into an MS-DOS box when I could do much, much more with a laptop Amiga. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM "you might not think so now, but just you wait and see..." --Kate Bush