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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.091600.28806@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 09:16:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jun01.041824.18372@ariel.unm.edu>, nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>In article <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   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.
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>There are three million Amigas world wide and it took less time than the
>Macs.

   That is very misleading.  I will say again that all of these 
increased Amiga sales are in Europe.  All of North America now accounts
for less than 8% of Commodore's world-wide sales, and the U.S. about
2/3 of this.  This means that Amiga sales in the U.S. are at a near
standstill, especially compared to Apple which has been reporting
record sales in the U.S.

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>>   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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>I've 'heard' from a reliable source that AmaxIII will support color.

   Rumors are bullshit -- I want FACTS.  If A-Max III takes half as
long to reach the market as A-Max II+, it never will reach the market.
Besides, what kind of color capabilities are you talking about?  
ReadySoft cannot use any of the third-party graphics boards, because 
they all lack the resolution and flicker like all hell.  They also
cannot use the Amiga's built-in color capabilities, because they 
are next to non-existant compared to the 8/24-bit color of the LC.

   The point is, if A-Max III does support color, it will very likely 
either support very limited color (16 colors out of a small palette),
require a third-party graphics board like the HAM-E that flickers
like hell, or require a very expensive graphics board like the A2410.
All of this would make a genuine color MAC very desirable in price
and quality of display.


   
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