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From: perley@caesar (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comments about the Classic.
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Date: 23 Oct 90 21:54:59 GMT
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In article <34248@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, TAAB5@ccvax writes:
>
>   I would like to compare the recently-introduced MAC Classic to the
>Amiga model that comes closest to matching it in price, the Amiga 500.
>

>   However, the Classic blows the A500 away in overall useability
>(the Classic has a hard drive, the A500 does not), ease-of-setup,

I have some apple literature on the new models in front of me.  It
doesn't have a full spec sheet, but there is no mention of a hard
drive on the $999 classic.  They have a classic with hard drive and 2
meg memory for $1499.

>ease-of-use, quality of the display (the Classic has a high-quality
>non-interlaced display, the A500 has a display that flickers 
>horribly),

Ah, the classic mac (as opposed to mac classic) display quality scam.
If you put a 9 inch display on a 500 with a non-interlace screen it
will look pretty good too, with no flicker.  You get nice looking
characters.... just not enough of them on the screen.


>   Let's compare two equally useable Classic and A500 systems.  The 
>Classic seems to come with just about everything you would need,
>including a hard drive, 1M of RAM, and monitor.  The price for this
>system is $1000.

$1499, really.  Now how much more is it with 640x400 display?  Oh, you
don't like flicker... ok, how much is for a 640x200 display?  how
about color?  You have told us repeatedly that the amiga will die if
all models don't have bizillion colors, but the mac is ok with just
B&W?

>
>   (1) Discontinue all Amigas without hard drives, and start including
>hard drives with all Amigas, including those A500s sold through the
>mass-merchants.  For the A500, remove the internal floppy drive and
>put a 20M hard drive in its place. 

How are people going to buy software if there is no floppy drive?

I suppose its possible that the basic classic ($999 version) has a
hard drive, but one would think they would mention it in the
literature.  (The piece I have is titled "INTRO NEWS")

-don perley


perley@trub.crd.ge.com