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From: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A new Amiga needed...and soon!
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.141349.10552@apollo.hp.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:13:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.025556.6986@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>>This is not meant as a flame, but why do you care?  Anything Apple does
>>with any RISC (I personally doubt very much whether the RS/6000 architecture
>>will ever fly in an Apple box) is going to be far, far up the price scale
>>from C= products.  Ditto '040 boxes from Apple.
>
>Well the tower is supposed to list for ~7,500.  It will have two
>separate scsi ports, built in ethernet, DMA, subsystems, 1meg rom, and
>built in accelerated 24-bit graphics (up to a 16" monitor for 24-bit,
>21" monitor for 8bit), plus a whole slew of other stuff that I'm sure
>your don't care to hear about.  The point is that I would not call
>that much hardware for 7.5K far far up from the Amiga line. More
>expensive perhaps but not way out of line.  Note that the desktop 040
>version will probably be considerably less.  Disclaimer: Figures are
>taken from MacLeak and my memory. (Which has known to fail)

You may not consider $3,000+ more "out of line", but MY budget does,
and I suspect that of most personal computer buyers would also.  The
point isn't that it isn't a WunderBox for $7.5, but that I can't justify
the $3-4k list for an A3000 as it is.

And anyway, we're talking about a CISC box, yes?  I still stand by my
statement that Apple would have to shove a RISC box to the high end of
their price scale, to avoid cannabalizing sales of their bread & butter
Mac II products.  Or simply abandon the 68k Macs, and with their installed
base size they'd be idiots to abruptly do that.  Idiots they aren't.
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