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From: db@cs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry)
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Subject: Re: Amiga 1500? (was Re: Amiga Competitiveness.)
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Date: 4 Oct 90 15:21:42 GMT
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Sigh.  Yesterday I post information about Checkmate Digital's A1500
upgrade for the Amiga 500.  Today I buy a copy of New Computer Express
which gives info about the Amiga 1500.  Yes, there really are two
A1500s.


In article <1423@abekrd.UUCP> koshy@abekrd.UUCP (Koshy Abraham) writes:
>The difference [from an A2000] - the A1500 comes with 2 floppy drives
>instead of one. You get the colour monitor and the various bits of
>software in the package.

The software is:
	Amiga Works (MSS) - word processor, database, spreadsheet etc.
	Populous, Sim City (with expansion disks for the extra 512K memory -
			    I'm not sure what these disks do)
	Their Finest Hour
	Deluxe Paint 3

There's also a book:
	Get the most out of your Amiga, published by Amiga Format magazine.

Today's Guardian gives the same info., but calls the business package
"Platinum Works".

Neither report says anything about the ECS or workbench 2.0, although an
earlier poster here (Koshy?) said that the new machine uses the ECS.

>A 2000 with single floppy and colour monitor retails for about 1450 pounds.
>Sounds like a marketing ploy.

Sounds like a sensible price for the A2000.  I'm seriously interested
in this machine.



I have three questions.

1.  When will this machine be available?

2.  What is Platinum Works like?  Can it print mail labels from the database?
    What's the word processor like?

3.  The list price of the A2000 is 1249 pounds.  Some mail order firms
    advertise it at 899 pounds.  Similar differences apply to the A3000.
    The Edinburgh Amiga Centre claimed that these are "grey imports"
    (whatever that means) of dubious reliability.  Are they bullshitting
    me, or are the mail order firms ripping people off?

Anyone know the answers?

--
 Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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