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From: R38@psuvm.psu.edu (Marc Rifkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MAC ][cx appraisal
Message-ID: <90086.011739R38@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 90 06:17:39 GMT
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All that you mentioned (in previous article) are how professional the
"look" and "feel" are of the MAC.  Granted the Amiga is kludgy, but
there is a FlickerFixer, there are framebuffers (with ALL 16 million colors),
there are networking boards, and more.  What you forgot is that the
price is also "professional."  That fact seems to be of importance to
students, who don't have as much money as do the Universities they attend.
Many companies feel "money is no object" or "more is better"- that is
just bull****, a lousy way to justify an unreasonably high price for
the SAME performace you could get with an Amiga with the right add-ons.
It doesn't matter if you have to add extras, or if the workbench is "kludgy"
- what matters is the bottom line: the quality of work you do.
HOWEVER... if the Amiga WERE more professional, and more orginal I might
add (CBM PLEEEZE don't play "match everyone else", play "exceed everyone
else"), it would sell more and have a higher image that it already does.
But as is, it is not as bad as the Mac makes it look.
I had no intention to flame the author of the previous article.  I was just
waiting for the context to say what was on my mind.

Marc Rifkin R38@PSUVM
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