Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 7 May 91 23:51:45 GMT References: <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 72 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: {Important information relevant to topic deleted by the guy I'm responding to} {To paraphrase: 'nExt has 30 mip chips, and will soon have 50 mip chips'} > > Unless nExt is making 30 mip custom chips, I think every system will soon > have 50 mip chips (that is if they have enough expansion slots; I would > hate to have to throw away a computer just because it has no expansion > slots). > >nExt doesn't make microprocessors they buy them from Motorola. You >know, the company that makes the CPU for the Amiga. Oh, I thought the Amiga uses a 6502 chip. Are you sure Motorola makes 6502s? >The current nExtstation(slab only) costs ~$2500 with the educational >discount. How much do you think it's going to cost you to upgrade >your Amiga 3000 to the 68040? And in three years, how much will it It will cost $1800 for an Amiga 3000, and $900 for a 68040 board. And I will get more than just a slab. And this is WITHOUT the educational discount. >cost you to upgrade it again to the 68050, or some other CPU? Now Probably another $900. >let's not forget those awesome graphics chips. Commodore will surely >have something better by then, and those custom chips are expensive to >develop. How much will it cost to upgrade to the new graphics chips? Probably $300 for a complete new set of 5 chips. > > So when will it be released? Sounds like you'll be waiting a long time! > I remember the wait for the nExt cpu's the first time around... > >It took 4 months for nExt to get there machines out after they were Well, Commodore hasn't announced the 2.0 roms yet, so I don't want to hear another word about when the 2.0 roms are released. :) >announce. HP customers waited almost a year because they announced >their machines last June. In all probability, the next generation of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In all probability, every nExt owner will have to totally resell his system to a 13 year old sucker. >nExts will contain the nExt generation 88K. I'll leave it up to you >to determine how good that chip will be. It's not whether the CHIP is good; it's whether the socket it plugs into is good. I'll leave it up to you to determine what that means. > >-Mike > >Any of you guys watch Star Trek the nExt Generation? > -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.