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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: not good news
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Date: 16 Oct 90 12:39:51 GMT
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In article <33589@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>
>   The new MACs are definately trouble for Commodore.  The original
>MAC II was trouble for Commodore, and it cost over three times more than a
>similar Amiga system.  The new MAC LC brings the same capbilities as the 
>MAC II for less than the price of a similar Amiga system.  It is the
>Amiga that is the more expensive one now, and unless something drastic
>is done soon, the Amiga is in big trouble.  Commodore did not exactly
>succeed against the MAC II when it cost more than the Amiga.  Commodore
>will NOT succeed against the MAC II now that it costs less.

[blah blah, more defeatist junk deleted]

 Marc, the Mac was NEVER trouble for Commodore when compared with
Power vs Price. The Amiga always comes out on top. What the Mac has
that the Amiga doesn't is advertising. Apple is so good at brain
washing, that even you, an Amiga owner, is convinced that
the Macs are the best thing since sliced bread. Why don't you step
away from the advertising, and price, and just LOOK at those systems
hardware wise. The Classic is nothing more than an old repackaged Mac.
This is simular to what Commodore did with the C64C (new case, lower
price, same old hardware.)  The LC is nothing more than a slow
enhancement to the classic, with color. And the SI is just the price
the IIci should have had all along. Only Apple can get away with
selling 40mhz 68030 systems for $7000 (Mac IIfx). These new Macs are
just a symbol that the idiots at Apple finally realized that you can't
overprice computers by 3 times the hardware base cost.

Marc, here are some suggestions for you.
1) Find out the price and specs of the Amiga 3000-25/50
2) Find out all the specs on the IIsi and what it costs with monitor
and keyboard.
3) compute the average amiga software price.
4) compute the average mac software price.

Now plot these on a Power vs Price scale. What you will find, is what
everyone new all along. The Amiga is still the better buy.
Whether a computer can display 256 colors out of 16million or not, does
not determine its success.

>                               -MB-


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