Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!yale!cs.utexas.edu!bryan From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: info on cost of Amiga 3000 and educational discount Message-ID: <223@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 27 Sep 90 16:26:02 GMT References: <2044@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: bryan@cs.utexas.edu Organization: Spam Detection & Removal Squad, Austin, TX Lines: 30 Spam-Content: Negligible In article <2044@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: =-In , andrewsr@u2.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes: =->> Amiga 3000/25Mhz-100MB HD System: list: $5798, Education: $3899 =->> 25 50 4798, 3039 =-> ^^^ =-> =->Why is the 100MB version over $800 more? =- =-Other than the obvious 'Because people will buy it for the advantages', take a =-closer look at what you are getting... =- =-1.565 times the speed =-2 times the HD storage =- Er, read that again Larry. In both cases it's the 3000/25, so there is no speedup. What you get for $800 is the larger drive, and as I understand it, an additional 2M RAM (static column?) If the RAM is 256Kx4, that's about $75 per meg (a previous poster's wild claim of $15 per 256K chip notwithstanding), so the drive size difference is costing a hefty $650. Even if the chips are 1Mx4, the larger drive is still going to cost over $500, which is way out of line. I can't see that it's worth it. For $650 you can almost get a whole 100M Quantum drive. While over all the educational prices are excellent, it strikes me that the 3000/25-100 is Commodore's high margin item for the high gullibility sector of the educational market. At the other end of the spectrum, the price difference between the 3000/25 and the 3000/16 is so tiny that I can't understand why anyone would buy the pokey one either.