Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njsmu!mccc!dworkin!jtravis From: jtravis@dworkin.Amber.COM (Jim, Sysop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga portable Keywords: Need a portable? Get a PC and a serial cable. Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 01:29:27 GMT References: Sender: bbs@dworkin.UUCP Organization: Labyrinth II BBS Lines: 67 limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) writes: > [ Followup-To has been set to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy where IMHO > this discussion belongs. ] > Agreed - I'm hoping that my post goes NOWHERE else. > I hate to say it, but who would really PURCHASE an Amiga Portable? > (That's me in the corner...) > The price would be more than an Amiga 500, so forget that market. > That market wouldn't want to play games on an LCD display anyway. > Uh huh. That leaves out the IBM marketplace too..move on. > The price would be more than an Amiga 2000, so maybe that market would > have a chance, but at that price the person could buy an Amiga 2500 or > 3000. 80% of those sales are in video or graphics production. Who > would want to do either of those on an LCD? > Can do it in ONE word: PRESENATAIONS. Ok - you're trying to sell a bank or someone else an idea you have. What are your tools right now - today? Slideshow? Hand-drawn comps? Maybe a videotape (ahh..but does businesses or banks all have videotape systems and a monitor?) ... If I had an Amiga, I'd take SCALA or Amigavision and sell like all hell. It's not the FINAL word on the graphic, but if you want to punch someone in the nose and get their attention, that combo would put nearly ANY laptop to shame. Imagine ...oh yeah! Imagine! > What are portables good for? So far, they are good for > meat-and-potato applications (word processing mostly) and off-site > data-entry (sales people et al) which are best done on cheap portable > PC clones. If your main application is on the Amiga, there is no > reason that you can't do data entry or text processing (initial text > entry) on a cheap portable PC clone and upload it to the Amiga for > processing, formatting, printing, etc. > > Just MHO, > Tom Yeah...but it's not fluent enough for most of us. I want to RUN the Amiga apps that I like, and not have to deal with something on some other platform, just to do a little text editing. And, if I want to REALLY catch up on work, why wouldn't I want to import it right into Pagestream as well. Why would I have to wait to get home to do this? Besides, don't you WANT to sit next to some poor slob with a Radio Shack or NEC laptop and torch 'em? Heck, that's half the fun of owning an Amiga! Jim ..and now the commercial.. --------///---------------------------------------------------------- /// Jim Trascapoulos * CSAccess BBS * 609-584-8774 /// *** Usenet: jtravis@dworkin.amber.mccc.Edu *** \\\ /// "I was told once that people don't like to think anymore, \\\/// so I tried to sell one a Mac. It worked." --\XX/--------------------------------------------------------------- "Spread the legs, open breach, erect launcher, apply lube, ram home into the breach, fire." -Field Artillery manual > -- > Tom Limoncelli tlimonce@drew.edu tlimonce@drew.bitnet 201-408-5389 > "People in tight pants, moving fast."