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From: frank@hfsi.UUCP (Frank McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <430@hfsi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 12:37:58 GMT
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Reply-To: emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu (Frank McPherson)
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In article <1991Jun21.183216.29240@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
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>   In addition, all Amiga systems above the A500 should include SCSI
>interfaces, hard drives, and display enhancers as standard hardware.  This
>includes the A2000, which has become so underpowered and overpriced as of
>late compared to the A500 below it and the A3000 above it that it creates 
>a gaping hole in Commodore's product line.  

I agree with you about the SCSI interface; it would be nice if it were
standard on everything.  I disagree that the A2000 should be priced 
very low to sell more of them.  It makes more sense to me to price the 
A2000 close enough to the price of an A3000 that most people who are 
considering getting a higher-end Amiga than a 500 may as well go with
the A3000-16/50, since it's only <insert dollar amount here> dollars 
more than the A2000.  The larger the percent of the Amiga ownership we
can get on the newer machines, the more of a chance there is for real 
advances in the architecture (chipset, etc) and the operating
system (device independent graphics, etc).

-- Frank McPherson                  INTERNET: emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu --