Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!shelby!neon!torrie From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons. aka Marc blunders Message-ID: <1990Oct16.184052.5210@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 16 Oct 90 18:40:52 GMT References: <33538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Oct16.015911.3837@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 51 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > I post this for the sake of interested 3rd parties who >might otherwise believe the Mac Barrett price post. My >information comes from my own school's prices. It is also a >correction to a few numbers in my prior post. Here are some prices from my school... > Marc, the Mac price you quote repeatedly does NOT include >a monitor. Apple monitors are NOT cheap. Taking education prices: > MAC LC Amiga 3000/16-50 > 16MHz 68020 16MHz 68030 > no math coprocessor 16MHz 68881 > 40MB drive 50MB drive > 2MB ram 2MB ram > Color video Color video > Apple monitor Multisync monitor > keyboard, etc. keyboard, etc. microphone ?? > ?? option for 68040 > accelerator/cache > ?? video slot > ?? 4 slots 1 slot > ?? 16MHz/32bit bus 16 MHz/32 bit 020 direct slot > $2,500 $2,600 > (educational) (educational) Stanford charges $1517 for the LC 2/40, $378 for the 12" RGB monitor (the 13" 640 x 480 monitor is around $650 though. You only get 512 x 342 with the 12" monitor in 256 colours from 16 million) $1,895 (approx $2,195 for 640 x 480) (educational) >Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Clearly, the Amiga 3000 is a better machine hardware wise, but whether that will make any difference to the kind of students who are buying a $2000 computer is something that remains to be seen. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "The All Blacks? Who are they? - some plebian