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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Mac
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Date: 10 Mar 91 19:28:23 GMT
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In article <jimb.3408@amiglynx.UUCP> jimb@amiglynx.UUCP (Jim Bednar) writes:
>
>  The mac classic costs nowhere around the price of a amiga.. A classic lists
>for $999.00 and the Amiga 500 lists for $850.00.. Get your facts straight..
>And why buy a Classic when an AMIGA can emulate it, hell it can emulate just
>about every computer on the market.. Ok. Lets move on.. How much is a decent
>frame buffer for the Mac? about 4000-5000 bux.. For the Amiga? you have many
>choises like DCTV $400.00 Firecracker24 $1400.00 Toaster $1500.00..
>
> FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE THINKING OF BUYING MAC'S GO TO YOUR NEAREST AMIGA DEALER
>AND PICK YOURSELF UP A REAL COMPUTER...
>
>Jim

	Time to put some realism back into this discussion. No
matter how much I like my Amiga, the Mac is not so far behind
that we can dismiss it so easily as Jim Bednar did. The Mac
Classic sells for about $750 on educational pricing. You can get
it with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB HD for $1,200 or so on educational
pricing. The A500 doesn't even compare to that price. If you get
an A500 with A590, for the same price you get 1MB of RAM and a
20MB HD.
	As to frame-buffers, first, DCTV is not a frame buffer.
Second, FireCracker and the Toaster may be color frame-buffers,
but they require a 2000, so it isn't fair to compare with the
500/Classic. Finally, for that price range, i.e. $1,500, you can
get 24-bit frame-buffers, and using 32-bit quickdraw which allows
the whole operating system including the finder and all
applications to transparently work in the 24-bit mode. That is
impossible to do today on the Amiga no matter how much you spend.
$4K-5K is just not the case.
	And I'm glad you only posted that to comp.sys.amiga,
cause if you'd cross-posted the flames would never end.
	-- Ethan


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