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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 and A590 questions
Message-ID: <19177@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 00:41:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.162708.18902@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <19174@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <19174@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) writes:
>>On the more speculative side, is there any reason to expect HD prices
>>to fall in the next few months?  (Why are they so expensive anyway?
>>$599 for a 40 of 50 meg drive in the IBM world would be absurd.)
>
>Economy of scale mixed with a "what the market will put up with" factor.

	I'd say it's more due to the cost of a PS, case, metalwork, PCB, etc,
etc.  It also gives you more than the standard HD controllers on PC's:
DMA, scsi, ram expansion.  The casework/PS is a non-trivial cost as well.
This is why we sell machines with bigger PS's and slots/drive bays - if
you're going to expand it, the end cost will be cheaper.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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