Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU!WHE46 From: WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: List Price for the A2410 Video Card. Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 90 06:02:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 30 Commodore has so far refused to set a price on their "U-Lowell" A2410 video card. If and when Commodore does set a price on it, the price will, I feel, totally dictate Commodore's success or failure in the workstation market and the Amiga's future as a general-purpose computer system. This will be the very first video product to be available from Commodore which will improve the Amiga's resolution and color capability in a way that is usable for anything but video. For this reason, and for the reason that this is Commodore's "short term solution" for the Amiga's color problems, this product absolutely must have a good price tacked onto it. The A2410 is, basically, a video card with a resolution of 1024x768 and a color capability of 256 colors out of a palette of 16 million, with a TI 34010 graphics coprocessor. (These are simplfied stats, since the actual resolution is slightly higher, and the color capability slightly better) There are similar video cards available for the MAC and IBM systems for less than $600. There are also similar video cards available with the graphics coprocessor for less than $200. This video card is a LONG time in coming. It is so long in coming that it is already out-of-date before it is even introduced. There are better TMS34020-based video cards becoming available for IBMs and MACs with resolutions as high as 1280x1024 and color capabilities as good as 32-bit. For this reason, I feel that the A2410 is already too little much too late. If Commodore puts a price tag on it much higher than $600, it will be too little, too late, too much, NO THANKS. -MB-