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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WHY AMIGA IS THE BEST! C'MON!!!!
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:44:00 GMT
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In article <3857@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>In article <16001@brahms.udel.edu> jeremym@brahms.udel.edu
>(Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
[ misspelling-riddled quote deleted ]
>     See my point?  Let's make sure the spelling and grammar gets
>cleaned up, so we don't look like those semi-literate Mac users
>that people have been arguing about.  Besides, it'll make a MUCH
>better impression on your English teacher.  :-)
>
>     Please don't take this as a flame.  I just feel that if we're
>going to promote the Amiga, we should try to present the best image
>we can.  If we can write something that looks clean and professional,
>but still infuses others with the same sort of excitement that we
>feel for the Amiga, it's bound to be more effective than something
>that sounds like BIFF proclaiming, "HAY D00D, THEEZ AMIGA'S R GRATE!!"
>
>     But I digress.  Tell people about how, thanks to the Video
>Toaster, a $5000 Amiga set-up can equal $100,000 worth of specialized
>video gear.  Mention the increasing number of musicians who find that
>the Amiga has great MIDI software.  Laugh at MS-DOS victims, stuck in
>their little 640K world as you slap on another megabyte of memory.
>Laugh even harder when their Great White Hope, OS/2, forces them to
>buy four megabytes or more do what an Amiga can do in one or two
>megabytes.  Express puzzlement at machines that won't let you do
>other useful work while you're downloading a large file from a BBS.

May I humbly suggest that you say nothing outright disparaging of other
machines?  Because [a] the Amiga people in your audience already believe
the bad things about other pee-cees, so why regurgitate litany?; [b] the
non-Amiga people in your audience will probably turn off as soon as flames
appear; and [c] you may very well not know enough about other pee-cees to
make valid claims about what they can or cannot do as well as the Amiga.

If you want to win new people to your camp, simply state -- eloquently but
succintly -- why the Amiga is a Good Thing.  Be wary of making direct
feature comparisons for reason [c] above (unless perhaps you really know
what you're saying :-), and try to avoid making value-judgements for your
readers.  (At the very least, don't look down your nose at "those idiots
who bought brand X", because those are the very same "idiots" you're
addressing, right?)

>     A good source of ideas is right at your fingertips: this very
>newsgroup.  Scan the recent articles; Amiga success stories abound.

Again, be wary.  I've read an awful lot of religion in this group that,
were I unaccustomed to reading News :-), would probably turn me off a bit.

Sorry if I've offended anyone; I'm merely tired of being evangelized.
I'd like to see some good, reasonably objective arguments for buying a
particular pee-cee brand for a change.  Not that I don't see them here,
of course...
--
"The goons are riding motorcycles, but WE'VE  | (Steve) rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
 got a whole big metal car! This will be like | The Apollo Systems Division of
 stepping on ants..." -- Freelance Police     |       Hewlett-Packard