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From: leech@vivaldi.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A3000UX academic pricing (was Re: A3000UX at UniForum?)
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Date: 6 Feb 91 18:29:27 GMT
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In article <1183@telesoft.com>, matt@telesoft.com (Matt Halls @day) writes:
|> >  Education Pricing:
|> >  A3000UXB (includes 5 Meg, 100 MB HD, ethernet board,UNIX Vr4 etc)
|> >  Individual  $4274.00  Institution $3724.00
|> >  A3000UXD (includes 9 meg, 200 MB HD ethernet board UNIX Vr4)
|> >  Individual  $5399.00  Institution $4699.00
|> Wow!! these prices are great.

    I'm disappointed.  For $900 less, I can buy a Next with more
memory, a larger (albeit gray-scale) display, 3x faster CPU, and a
variety of canned software (some of which might even be useful).  I
don't know what part of the educational market Commodore is attempting
to address, but I don't think it includes CS grad students who want
personal Unix boxes :-(
    Flames to /dev/null; I own neither an Amiga nor a Next (but would
happily purchase an Amiga if they could add a 68040 and ship it at a
price comparable to a Next).
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``My goodness,'' thought Milo, ``everybody is so terribly sensitive
      about the thing they know best.''
      - Norman Juster, _The Phantom Tollbooth_