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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 case (Was Re: A3000 disk slots)
Message-ID: <1493@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 5 May 90 16:21:33 GMT
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In <344@ncc1701.sub.org>, space@ncc1701.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:
>In article <11313@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>>In article <338@ncc1701.sub.org> space@ncc1701.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:
>>> Can you give me one good reason why you didn't put the A3000 in a good,
>>> professional tower case?
>>
>>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.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                ^^^^^^^^
>
>OK, I can see your point. But wouldn't it be possible to offer the machine in
>a tower case, too? Can you say A3500? I knew you could! :-)

Yes it would be reasonable. What is not reasonable is to expect a company to
come out with every possible physical configuration all at once.

Look folks, CBM has intro'd a very capable and useful machine. They have not
said that it is the last of the Amiga line. They have not stopped development.
If you don't like what you see so far, make your wishes known and wait for the
next announcement. It serves no purpose to say that the 3000 'should have been'
something else. It isn't. It is what it is, as is the 500, 2000, 2500/xx, etc.

-larry

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