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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PC Mag insults Amiga (no insult, but definite misinformation)
Message-ID: <2907@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 19:03:06 GMT
References: <4063@crash.cts.com> <2779@corpane.UUCP> <59211@bbn.BBN.COM>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:

>sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

>}uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:

>}>...  He states "Bringing Multimedia capabilities to the
>}>majority of office desktops would be an extremely expensive proposition at
>}>today's prices"  He then says a 386 equipped system would cost over $10,000.00

>...

>}Oh but the author is still *wrong* above, you can get multi-media on a
>}'386 for much less than 10K. 5-6K would be more like it.

>Could someone give me a rundown of what this equipment IS that costs
>$5K [or $10K], and what the Amiga equivalents would be that they are so much
>less expensive?  Thanks

Sorry Bernie, it's a secret. Yes, we could tell you but then we'd have to
kill you  (you know the story..). 

I was just guestimating above, but we have bought '386 sytems for around 
$2500 here at work. Now to get 'multimedia' I figure you need a sound board
and a video board. I have seen sound boards for around $200, and I figure
a Targa 16 board would be a good video card. It has video outputs, framegrab
ability and genlocking built in. Kinda like a video toaster.

The Targa board runs around $3,000 and the software that works on it (TIPS?)
is about $800. So all the extra stuff is around $4000. But that's list price.
I figure that you can probably get around 30% off list by doing a bit of
shopping around. So let's say $2800 - $3000 for the video/sound gear.

That makes the entire unit around $5300

Now all this stuff on an IBM still wouldn't be as integrated as on an Amiga.

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