Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 case (Was Re: A3000 disk slots) Message-ID: <11313@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 4 May 90 04:29:13 GMT References: <1990Apr26.003754.13905@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <11099@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Apr26.234239.25763@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <11171@cbmvax.commodore.com> <740@ki.UUCP> <11214@cbmvax.commodore.com> <338@ncc1701.sub.org> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article <338@ncc1701.sub.org> space@ncc1701.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes: > In article <11214@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes: > >I must tell our case designers not to do such a good job next time, > >it's confusing everybody! > > Yeah. I'm confused. I'm confused that there are still people who consider a > desktop case appropriate for their top-of-the-line model. > > Can you give me one good reason why you didn't put the A3000 in a good, > professional tower case? With enough room for my full-height SCSI drive, > currently sitting on top of my A2000, which in turn is mounted beneath the > desk, on its side. With enough slots to please everyone. one good reason: $ Tower cases and power supplies big enough for "enough slots and drive bays to please everyone" are fairly expensive. Having these features has some positive effect on the attractiveness of the system, having a higher pricetag has an (arguably) greater negative effect. We want to sell a lot of these '030 based systems and having a very competitive base model price/performance ratio seems like a reasonable starting point. I personally like lots of room for drives and slots, but given the built in expansion stuff and things like > 100M-byte 3.5" half-height drives, I could probably manage to live with the A3000 configuration. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)