Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aimd
From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ram expansion on STes
Message-ID: <2981@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 90 14:16:48 GMT
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Reply-To: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <2380@syma.sussex.ac.uk> grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) writes:
>Atari is certainly selling 520STEs in the UK.  You are right that it is
>cheaper to buy a 520STE and expand the memory than to buy a 1040STE. 
>One dealer in the UK is offering an expanded 1mb 520STE for 345 pounds
>(as opposed to 499 pounds for an official 1040STE) and even a 4mb 520STE
>for 599 pounds (or 625 pounds, depending on which magazine you read).

This is great stuff but we'd better get our orders in quick. Atari UK
may start selling the old STFM's with a slightly-serious-pack (ie. not
many games but Kuma business software) for 299 pounds but at the same
time increasing the price of an STe to 300 pounds without any supporting
pack. This is apparently to make it clear that the STe is definitely an
upgrade.

This seems slightly crazy. Who's going to write software for the STe
when most customers are taking advantage of a cheaper STFM (which Atari
UK now seem to be pushing as a business machine!). 

The only way to go is to get rid of the STFM sales and force people into
moving ahead with the STE (at the price it is at the moment - 399 pounds
with the large software pack).

Is Atari US going to try the same thing?

Mark.

(Why doesn't anyone put bl**dy pound signs on keyboards???)