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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: 1 Jun 91 02:22:49 GMT
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In article <27494@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
>
>   I seem to remember somebody on here stating that it took the Amiga less
>time to reach a sales mark (2 million?) than it did the Mac. I'm in need of
>a reprint on that for the benefit of some Mac "friends". If you know the
>figures please post them.

   There is currently an installed base of roughly 5 million MACs and 
2 million Amigas world-wide.  However, these figures are very misleading
because most of the Amigas are in Europe and most of the MACs are in
the U.S.

   If you wish to compare the systems more directly, there is currently
an installed base of about 4 million MACs and 0.4 million Amigas in the
U.S.  These figures are more directly relevent, since the majority of
readers of Usenet are in the U.S.  This is also where I got my figure
of "10 MACs for every Amiga" in a previous message.

>
>   Tom
>
>--
>       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
>    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and
> __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales 
> \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. Only the Amiga! DEVO Anyone?

   I've been wanting to answer this one for some time.  By your signature,
you are assuming that all MACs are monochrome.  This could not be further 
from the truth.  The Amiga runs about 80% of MAC software, and all of it
in monochrome.  The reason to get a MAC would be to run all of this
software in true color.

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