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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MAC ][cx appraisal
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Date: 27 Mar 90 23:46:07 GMT
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In article <90086.011739R38@psuvm.psu.edu>, R38@psuvm.psu.edu (Marc Rifkin) writes:
> All that you mentioned (in previous article) are how professional the
> "look" and "feel" are of the MAC.  

That impression does have an effect on potential buyers, though.

> Granted the Amiga is kludgy, but there is a FlickerFixer, there are 
> framebuffers (with ALL 16 million colors), there are networking boards, and more.  

Do they come standard?  No?

> What you forgot is that the price is also "professional."  

How much does a 2000 equivalently set up cost?  Including equivalent software,
networking,...  The price gap is going to narrow.

> 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.

The add-ons bring the price up, though, don't they?

> 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.

The worker is more important than the tool, but the work you can do is
affected by the tools you have available to do the work.

> 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.

CBM needs to do more with the Amiga.  They realy haven't improved that
much on the original version in the last five years, at least from the
viewpoint of the potential buyer.  It's beginning to show its age.

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