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From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New baseline Amiga?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 11:56:48 GMT
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In article <8737@crash.cts.com>, uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>[]
>I think the focus should be on getting the price of the A500 to as low
>as possible.  Get it lower than it is today, and it will be more accepted
>by the mass market.

   I don't think this is the right way to go about marketing the A500 at
all.  A lower price would not necessarily guarantee it success.  I would
much rather have the price remain the same, and have the O.S. software
upgraded to AmigaOS2.0, and full ECS utilitized, without being crippled.
(No more of that stupid practice of putting the Super Agnus in, and 
only having it address 512K)

>
>Out of curiosity, given that a 16 bit, 7 Mhz 68000 based A500 with
>1M of RAM goes for $600.00 (just a guess, use this figure for our
>comparison here), what would a 14Mhz 68020 based (or whatever clock speed
>would be easy and cheap to implement in a redesign) with 1M of 32 bit
>RAM retail for.  Say with a 68881/2 socket, but no math chip.
>
>Basically what would the guestimate of the retail price on an 020 based
>32 bit A500 be?

   As many people would probably remember, I used to be a very strong
advocate of putting a 68020 into the A500 and A2000.  I no longer am.  I
have since realized that is plenty more that is important besides the
processor.  Instead of putting in a faster CPU into these systems, I
would much rather see Commodore include the display enhancer hardware,
an HD floppy drive, and a SCSI controller.  The display enhancer alone
would be far more useful in these systems than a faster CPU.

>
>-Roger
>
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