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From: mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Buying an Amiga to get a Mac?
Summary: Speaking as a novice with particular problems....
Keywords: amiga, mac, amax, buy
Message-ID: <24915@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 22:34:51 GMT
References: <22220@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay)
Organization: RoadKill Records(TM): Music With Impact
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...I can tell you the following: The AMAX will not run MIDI programs
for the Mac environment, and rumors that the new one will correct this
gap are just that as of now-- RUMORS. The primary disadvantage of an
emulator of any sort comes with a two user environment, where one person
needs one machine and the other needs something different. Thsi was my
situation; I was going to get an AMAX until I realized that my wife 
didn't need anything more complicated than MacWrite, so I bought her a
tired old Mac 512k for her office, and told her to keep her hands off
my Amiga. |->

An AMAX, bundled with chips'n'drive, runs about $400. A Mac Plus, on an
educational discount, runs $799 (or has the price dropped again?). The
AMAX is a moneysaver, all right, UNLESS your Mac needs can be satisfied
by spending $300 on an old tub.

-- 
metlay                    | JOKES FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS #12:
                          | Q: What's the best MIDI peripheral for the Amiga?
mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu  | A: A Macintosh.
metlay@vms.cis.pitt.edu   | (it'd be funnier if it weren't true...*sigh*)