Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment Message-ID: <21114@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 1 May 91 15:25:19 GMT References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1991Apr25.095959.22878@ncsu.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 37 In article consp13@bingsunp.bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) writes: >I think this is a bit of an unfair comparison, since televisions don't >become "obsolete" one year after purchase. I don't think there's any >other industry that moves as fast as the computer industry. >And, given the fact that today's computer will be severely >underpowered in two years (a short time, really), .... I think you're way off here. The computer industry does move fast, because it is just about all technology driven. However, just because a computer does not go as fast as the latest and greatest thing you can get today, it's far from obselete. It does the same job it did when you bought, and as long as it can still run the software that's available, it is FAR from being obselete. It may no longer be just what you want, but that's because your needs have changed quickly. It's still the same computer. I think computers are a bargain. If you can't afford a the level of technology you want, you can wait a few years and the same money you have today will get you what you wanted. Or you can buy now and update later. If you have any reasonably system, you wind up spending more on things that can travel to the next platform, peripherals and software, than you do on the basic box anyway. Compare this to a car. Automobile technology is too mechanically based to move with the speed of semiconductor technology, but like anything else mechanical, they wear out. In five years, a $20,000 car may be practically worthless. It doesn't do the same things it did when you bought it, and it may be far too expensive to maintain. A computer may change in relative value over the year, but it perfectly maintains its absolute value as a computing device, at least until it's impossible to run new applications on it. The A1000 runs as much Amiga software as an A500 or A2000. >consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Marcus N. Cannava -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.