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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End)
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Subject: Re: A3000 chip prices revisited
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Date: 28 Sep 90 03:48:01 GMT
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In article <1832@nemesis.stsci.edu> scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) writes:
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=-Therefore, if the A3000 25-100 comes with 5Meg RAM and the
=-A3000 25-50 comes with 1Meg the 4Meg difference averages
=-out to about $470.  So the education discount difference of
=-$800 means you're paying $330 for the extra 50MEG of hard
=-drive.  This difference is even more reasonable if the 
=-A3000 25-100 comes with the 1Mx4 chips, as I suspect it
=-does.
=-
	I thought all 3000s were shipped with 2M DIP RAM.

	If the 3000 comes with 5M, and there is 2M of chip RAM, then the
remaining 3M can't be 1Mx4 chips.

	The 3000/25-100 is overpriced relative to the 3000/25-50, Amigaworld
advertisers notwithstanding (which, by the way, is one word.)