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From: mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT (Who has one?)
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Date: 23 Jul 90 14:52:17 GMT
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References:<1990Jul19.160526.2215@arcsun.arc.ab.ca> <6764@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1990Jul20.141733.5567@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jul20.233102.24577@math.lsa.umich.edu>

In article <1990Jul20.233102.24577@math.lsa.umich.edu> 
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
> I was looking thru the Apple Educational Discount price list that was
> posted in misc.forsale.xxx. Even at this discount, a comparable 16MHz 
Mac IIcx
> system would cost $5140.50. (2 meg RAM, 40 MB HD, 8 bit video card, Apple
> RGB monitor.) For the 25MHz Mac IIci, add $800 or so to the price.

 Well that's all relative to which school you go to since each school is
at a different discount level. Its some what less than a thousand dollars
less here for the system you mentioned here at Brown. When I can get a
nice system like a cx which has good support for a not that much more than
what a TT costs then it gets harder to stay... It seems that Atari really
needs to do something that makes everyone go wow! like they did with when
the ST was released. It seems boosting the base TT up to 32Mhz might just
do that.


> >                 Comparison of standard features
> 
> >                    Amiga 3000     Mac IIcx       Atari TT030

 This is one of the most lopsided tables I've seen recently (and I was just
reading MacWorld :-).  

> >RAM                 2 to 17        1 to 32        2 to 26
                                           ^^ -- it's 8 meg under Mac OS

> >ROM                 512K           256K           512K
                                      ^^ -- they upped it 512k in the ci if
I remember correctly.

> >  Max resolution    1280 x 480     Optional       1280 x 960
                                      ^^ Optional graphics?? I haven't met 
a mac user who decided not buy the graphics capatibilities:-)  
That's stretching the definition a bit thin. Atari just didn't want to say
that Mac graphics out-do the TT's graphics in the Mac II's base config.

> >Hard disk           DMA            Non-DMA        DMA
                                       ^^ Yeah, but just as fast in normal
use.

> KEYBOARD             yes        OPTIONAL!!         Yes
> 
> Mouse is optional??!! $165 for a stupid *keyboard* ?? And these are the
> Educational Discount prices? Geeze... Makes you wonder at the folks
> running "Higher Education" ...

 Well, the mouse does come with the computer but a lot of good that'll do
you without the keyboard. $165 will get you the big AT keyboard, you get
the smaller one for about half the price. Of course that's still a silly
price since we all know that students are just Mr. Moneybags :-)

Cheers,
Marshall


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