Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!dxb132 Organization: Penn State University Date: Wednesday, 27 Mar 1991 15:30:52 EST From: Message-ID: <91086.153052DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Distribution: comp References: <1991Mar20.223535.248@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar22.040419.27268@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com> In article <20124@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) says: >Depends on the computer. The A500 is a $500 computer for a reason. Power >supplies cost real money. Same reason the C64 and C128 had low output power >supplies. The A2000's 200W+ supply is one of the reasons the A2000 costs so >much more for the same basic computing power. 200W is not "weak", even for a >machine is all those slots. Ok, how about selling the 2000 motherboard for $500 (the cost of the A500 as stated above) and letting everyone buy those "expensive" parts from Tiawanese clone people for $50. Leave out all the slots, too; I can buy connecters from Digi-Key for a couple bucks. (That should lower the price $100 at least, as everyone knows, computers with many slots are expensive). Yes this is a marketing parody. :-) -- Dan Babcock