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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000UX academic pricing (was Re: A3000UX at UniForum?)
Summary: The color's the difference.
Message-ID: <32529@auc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 09:02:43 GMT
References: <18550@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1183@telesoft.com> <1337@borg.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <1337@borg.cs.unc.edu> leech@vivaldi.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>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,
                          ^^^^^^^^^^

That's probably where a lot of the cost difference comes in.  Color
displays tend to cost a good deal more than gray-scale displays of the same
resolution.

Although it does point out that Commodore might need to look into making
educational packages with gray-scale monitors.  I know *I* wouldn't want to
have an Amiga without a color monitor, but others might settle for that for
awhile, especially if they can't afford a color system that they want.

>                                              3x faster CPU,

The 68040.  Is it fully debugged yet?  Give Motorola a chance to get the
chip working right before expecting Commodore to release a system based
on one.

In fact, I think I remember reading that the NeXTStations have some kind
of hack in them to get around the current known bugs in the '040.  Am I wrong
about this?

>--
>    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/

Rodney
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