Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!digi.lonestar.org!jgay From: jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: List Price for the A2410 Video Card. Message-ID: <1367@digi.lonestar.org> Date: 17 Dec 90 16:53:25 GMT References: Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx. Lines: 48 From article , by WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett): > > stuff about the C= video card and C= future deleted > > 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 that it is already out-of-date before it is even introduced.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. > First off I too would like to know the price of the A2410, what kind of monitor I will need for it and other things (and I would surely love to be able to buy the card for ~600 or so), but... I don't think that Marc's pricing is completely accurate. I don't know about the Mac market (but I could probably guess with everything else by Apple being sooo overpriced), but in the IBM world the cards that I think he is talking about are the graphics clone boards that are out. These do have a limited co-processor, but have nowhere near the power of a TI34010 chip. Most of these cards run in there highest modes in interlaced mode and are not very fast (compared to the 34010 boards). The cheapest that I have seen a new 34010 board is the one from Nec priced at (I believe) ~$600 (16 colors, don't know the resolution). If you wanted all the functionality (256 colors, higher resolution) more memory (bringing the price close to $1000 - uses VRAM). I know of 1 board using the 34020 and have seen adds for another (no price, no specs, basically just a phone number which I didn't call). The one that I know of was priced (last I knew) at around $3000-4000. Not an overly large market at that price. I am sure that the '020 board pricing will drop somewhat after sales get established, but most '010 boards are still in the ~$1500 price range and go up to $3000 adding features and memory. Again I hope that the C= boards are in the reasonable price range - read ~$400-600 range (400 being where can I get mine today, 600 being where can I go and look at the board and maybe be impressed enough to buy it, but probably go home and talk myself into it in a couple months). john.