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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Why buy an Amiga?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 21:02:52 GMT
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Well, let me put it this way:  I have two machines, an Amiga 500 with 
5MB RAM and 150MB HD, and a Philips 486 with 4MB ram and 320MB HD.  
Using Windows (mainly Excel and Word for Windows) the 386 is a very nice 
setup... I was tempted to switch to MS-DOS advocacy (at least Windows 
advocacy) until I realized that the 386 setup cost about 10,000 and the 
Amiga setup cost about 3000 (ram and HD included in both prices).
 
So, if money is no object, you have a tough choice ahead of you. If, 
however, you have some form of budget to adhere to, the choice is a 
little more obvious.  
 
On an 8MHz Amiga, Intuition is nice.  At 25MHz, its wonderful.  At 
25MHz, Windows is nice.



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