Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk!dh From: dh@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: STE's in Europe..lack of SIMMS Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 01:10:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 30 A response from Atari on this one please! Here in Europe, Atari are now shipping some STE's with soldered in RAM. Forgive me if i'm wrong, but was one of the plus points of the STE not the easy memory upgrades using SIMM's? I reckon Atari are peeved that people are buying 520STE's and pluggin in extra SIMM modules. Atari would rather people buy the 1040STE. However, there is no difference between the 520STE and 1040STE apart from the larger memory...so why splash out extra dosh for a 1040STE? I reckon Atari have dug themselves into this hole. The basci hardware of all their machines is the same...face it...there is absolutely no reason to buy a 1040STE. But why do Ataari have to go and spoil it and solder in ram. It's going to confuse memory upgrading even more. On a different note, I've just bought the new SIMM Ram board for my normal ST from Evesham Micros here in the UK. It costs 89 UK pounds wheen it commes with 2x256K simm's which upgrades a 520ST to 1Mb of ram. This allows me the easy-upgradeability of the STE range (hah!). I can currently get 1Mb simm's for 30 pounds....s to upgrade my ST to 4Mb would cost me 120 pounds in the future. Hmm..why would a Mega 4ST cost me hundreds more Time for some price reductions Atari! Rich