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From: kpmiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Kent P Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.152312.26039@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 15:23:12 GMT
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>Well, How about an A500 with execllent sound output (4 voice stereo), 880K
>floppy, 4096 colors and greater speed than the Mac? SCSI can be added for
>~$150, and the networking for about the same. Mouse too. The CPU with
>drive costs $500 or so... so, add it all up and get $900 list out of it.
>The only thing the MAc has over that is the keyboard/mouse bus. And we have
>Color, far superior sound, and besides, I can run all Mac stuff on my Amiga
>too. Sound superior? I think so.
I can't handle it.  Add the cost of the scsi bus (150), a monitor (250-300),
and what do you have?  500+150+300 = 950!  Mac Classic.  Plus, you'd better
add about $50 to replace that cheap piece of crap disk drive button that
keeps breaking on all my friends Amiga.  (a Mac Classic street price is
even less.  Can you get a Amiga with a 40Mb HD and monitor for 1100? Maybe,
but don't be telling me you can do it for much less)

Oh, by the way, if you are thinking of flaming me back, you'd better do
it by mail.  This subject has now hit my kill file.  Trying to keep
my blood pressure down, you know.

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