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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons.
Message-ID: <1999.271c7c3e@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 17 Oct 90 02:43:57 GMT
References: <33538@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <33538@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>     I would like to make some price comparisons between various Amiga
> systems and two of the new MAC systems just unveiled today.
> 
>     The new MAC LC (actually, it should be called the MAC IILC, because
> the only difference between this system and the original MAC II is

 Nope. It's just a faster MAc plus or SE. Not a II at all. It's also still
vapourware, and will be until January 1991. Compare the prices for this then
and not now.

> the lack of a FPU) gives you a 68020 running at 20Mhz, 2M of RAM, a 40MB
                                                  ^^^^^
                                                  16Mhz

> hard drive, color video, and keyboard for $2500 list.  I will build
                               ^^^^^^^^
                               Don't think so. The pamphlet isn't clear. It
definately doesn't say included as does the mouse.


> a similar Amiga system using an Amiga 500 as the base.  Add $300 for
> the monitor, which is included in the Amiga system I will compare it
> against.  To be fair, I will use list prices.
> 
>    Now let's compare the MAC IISI system to a similar Amiga system.
> For $3800, the MAC IISI  offers standard MAC II color graphics,
> an '030 running at 20Mhz, 40MB hard drive, 1.44MB SuperDrive, and
> crude mono sound digitizer.

 + 68882!


Also the classic is still limited to 4Mb memory, the LC to 10 Meg and the IIsi
is limited to 17Meg.

Even the high end IIfx is limited to only 32 Megabytes of memory.

> 
>                                    -MB-
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