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From: rooijen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (A.J. van Rooijen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Future of 500 (was help on installing 1meg agnus)
Message-ID: <1004@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl>
Date: 22 Oct 90 09:33:02 GMT
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>|#1 - Seperate the product line a500 and a2xxx.
>|     Simple to do:  Don't allow the 1 meg agnus and don't upgrade
>|                     A500s to 2.0.
>|
>|Doing this will make the seperation more than obvious.  People who 
>|want to buy 500s for the kids can be quite happy with 512k of chip
>|and Workbench 1.3.  They people who want this machine will not care
>|(need?) dealer support.
>|
>|The customer who does not want a machine that looks like a c128.
>|(Sorry) and wants a machine that can do "professional" type 
>|applications (whether it can be done on the consumer 500 is not
>|a issue since we are talking marketing not techie) on a tight
>|bugdet will go the computer dealer and purchase a A2000 (A1500?).

I think that you have forgotten one thing: a computer is professional
by the software it is using. Look at the IBM computer, although there
are certain hardware limitations you can run Ventura, Pagemaker, DBaseIV,
WordPerfect 5.1. All these programs make the IBM a professional. So I
think it is not wise to suppose that a few slots more (for $700 more) makes
the A2000 suddenly a professional computer. I am a happy user of an
A500 with 2MB memory and a SCSI-harddisk. It is the A500 which has made
the success of the Amiga possible. Most people don't have large amounts
of money to buy an A2000/A3000. This is also the reason why there are
no really professional programs (except for graphics and AmigaTeX).
I am getting tired of people stating their A2000 is so professional.
If I want to do calculations or do graphics I use a DEC workstation(
40 MIPS, 1024*1024 pixels 16 million colors). If I want to play,
write music or make a drawing I use my A500. I just use the right
computer for the right job.

I hope I have not offended anybody

greetings
Erwin van Breemen
The Orega Programming Group Holland