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From: AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amigas, Unix and WorkStations: Comparisons anyone?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 15:58:53 GMT
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eejsc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (John Croft) Writes:

>As Peter da Silva asked: "Where are all these machines aimed?"

      Well here's a guess as to where all of these workstations are
    being directed.  My guess is that all of these computers are being
    aimed at the upper end of the computer market, not the workstation
    world.  The prices of a useable computers has risen incredibly.
    This is because users expect more from their computers, for example
    a diskdrive.  How many C64 were sold without a diskdrive?   Probably
    quite a few.  However, now people are demanding that computers have
    harddrives, etc.  This demand is pushing the price of a computer
    higher and higher.  At the same time, workstation vendors have been
    lowering prices on their workstations.  Remember a few years ago,
    when low end workstations cost close to $9000, well now, they cost
    about $5000.  By the time a user configurs a computer to their needs,
    with enough RAM, a harddrive, ect. they quickly approach the point
    where a workstation looks attractive.  So the thinking is that if
    workstations could go down a little more, they could get all of these
    users, and businesses.  Well that is my guess as to where they are
    all aimed.

        Like I said before, and will probably say again, there are very
    few people who need to purchase new computers.  Most "out of date"
    computers are still useable.  The only reason to "upgrade" is to keep up
    with the Joneses, and to defend youself in a flame war.  I too have
    caught myself doing saying "Wow that would be really neat to have!",
    and have to quicky slap myself back into reality with "Your going to
    pay how much to make you Ami a little more neat?!"  So that is yet another
    market these low-end workstations are being aimed at: Boobs.  People who
    go into a computer store and say "Yea, I'll take that XXYYY 5billion
    PC with 900 Megs of RAM, 800 Gig  Harddrive, Super-Excellent-You-
    Can't-Even-See-All-Of-These-Colors (Conforms to the MEGABUCKS
    standard) Monitor and viedo card, and one 9 pin dot matrix printers."
    Yes people like this do exist and they should be outlawed like
    astro-turf, and the DH.

        Then again I could be way off the mark.

>cheers johnc << comp.sys.amiga.advocacy - what a group! - what a flame! >>
>--
>John Croft      eejsc@marlin.jcu.edu.au -or- zolos@paladine.jcu.edu.au
>         Tutor, Dept EE Engineering, James Cook Uni, Townsville,Q 4811
>                Reef Amigans User Group,  POBox 988, Aitkenvale,Q 4812



                                                       Ajai