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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Mac
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Date: 13 Mar 91 20:42:31 GMT
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dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael "Moose" Dinn) writes:
>In article <4209.27db9885@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>>All I hear about is how great the toaster is, but nobody discusses the 
>>price required for a complete set-up, which was discussed in the latest 
>>Byte issue to be around $25,000 including an Amiga. This seems far out of 
>>reach for your home user.


The average home user won't have need of the expensive top-of-the-line
equipment quoted in Byte either.  he won't NEED a time base corrector, sure
he'll get some jitter and noise bars, but this is a home production right? he
won't NEED high quality 1/4 inch tape or super vhs.  he'll be just fine on his
normal vhs.  

>That's an overestimate. A local dealer has the Toaster set up, they told me
>that they'd sell me the whole setup (A2500/20, 8 M ram, Toaster, 3 monitors,
>and laserdisk player) for under $5000. Add a time base corrector and a
>video camera, and that's probably under $10000 still. (I don't know what
>a TBC costs, nor do I really care, I just like the Toaster :-)
>

Yes, that article WAS an overstatement, with the MOST expensive equipment
money could buy.

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