Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!fts1!atronx!rwm
From: rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons. aka Marc blunders
Message-ID: <52330.656182262@atronx.UUCP>
Date: Wed Oct 17 10:51:02 1990
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
In-Reply-To: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)

In a message posted on 16 Oct 90 18:40:52 GMT,
torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) wrote:

EJT>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
EJT>  Stanford charges $1517 for the LC 2/40, $378 for the 12" RGB monitor (the

EJT>  Clearly, the Amiga 3000 is a better machine hardware wise, but whether that
EJT>will make any difference to the kind of students who are buying a $2000 
EJT>computer is something that remains to be seen.

All this is 'again' proving is that Commodore needs to set up an Advertised
educational Discount program for post-secondary institutions, and also 
seriously look into what would be required to have the Amiga sold out of the
School Computer Stores.  While the Dealer network might 'seem' like a good idea
to Commodore, a lot of students do not go to a dealer to buy a computer, they
go straight to the University Computer store.  And what do they see?  IBM Clones,
and MAC systems.  They're never even given a chance to make an educated choice.

(P.S.  I work for a Dealership in Ottawa, and there are two universities
here - I STILL wish the Amiga were sold out of the universities - It would add
to the number of Amiga Users, which would always help those dealerships that
deal with 'After Sales Support' such as Education, Service, Peripherals/etc/etc
- IE: I heard at one time that some of the dealers were part of the reason
that the Universities were not looked into.  I think any of the dealerships
that were worried were just ones that were not GOOD enough to support the
machine right.  I the original BOX is the only thing you're able to sell, then
tough )

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