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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000
Message-ID: <157@next.com>
Date: 5 May 90 18:57:18 GMT
References: <79733@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8863@hubcap.clemson.edu> <11126@cbmvax.commodore.com> <153@next.com> <124@coplex.UUCP>
Reply-To: Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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In article <124@coplex.UUCP> dannie@coplex.UUCP (Dannie Gregoire) writes:
>aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>>I think it's wonderful that the 3000 comes with a harddisk; at today's
>>prices, given a powerful machine like the 3000, it'd be ridiculous for 
>>Commodore not to throw in a disk in there (the disk probably costs them
>>under $250).  
>I disagree with your reasoning!  First of all even if the drives cost them 
>$250 (a 40Meg SCSI under $250 is pretty damn cheap), I doubt they would
>turn around be include it in the price for $250, $550 would be more like it.

That's true, of course. But it's true of all the components in any computer;
if you bought the floppy and the CPU & such all separately you'd probably
be paying 2-4 times less than what Commodore is really charging you. But you
don't mind that; you get a wonderful product that works out of the box. You
wouldn't say the same thing you are saying about the hard disk about the CPU,
for instance --- "I wonder if I can get the 3000 without the 030 & the 882
but with sockets instead; I already have the pair and I could just drop them
in."

I guess my point was that a hard disk should be considered as much a part of 
a professional computer as the floppy or the CPU.  Otherwise there will always
be cases where unsuspecting people will buy the machine without the HD and 
very soon run into trouble and end up thinking the machine is not powerful
enough or end up paying more for a HD that they could've gotten cheaper if
factory installed.  And I imagine the number of such cases will outnumber of
the number of people who know what they're doing and wish they could buy the 
machine without the HD.

Ali (Ali Ozer@NeXT.com)