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From: ihm@minnie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <385@minnie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 16:02:45 EST
Article-I.D.: minnie.385
Posted: Thu Jan 22 16:02:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 19:50:22 EST
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Reply-To: ihm@minnie.UUCP (Ian Merritt)
Organization: The Frobboz Magic Dungeon Co., Inc.
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Keywords: Mac, Amiga
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>
>I am currently in the process of buying a personal computer.  I have
>narrowed myself down to either a Mac or an Amiga, due to personal
>preference, software availability, and flexibility.  But I can't seem
>to decide what would be my best decision.  All my Mac friends scream,
>"Buy Mac!!!"    My Amiga friends retort, "Don't be silly!  Amiga is
>state-of-the-art." 
>     So I ask, what do you people think is the better of the two, and
>why?  As far as price goes, the deals I have are:
>
>Mac-plus:   Est. $1550 for Mac (1 meg memory), Imagewriter II printer,
>            and second drive
>Amiga:      Est. $1650 for Amiga, Expansion board (512 k), color
>            monitor, and second drive   (printer not in deal-- est.
>            another $450 or so) 
>
>I would appreciate some as-unbiased-as-possible opinions on what my
>best deal is.
>
>Please E-mail your responses to me, and I will tally up the responses
>and post what the general majority opinion is.
>
>					Elliott Buchholz
>					Looking for a glitchy phrase
>

Well, you know the old phrase "you can wait forever", but I am going to
suggest exactly that.  Personally, I think the Amiga has certain
hardware and OS advantages, but the Mac is better supported and likely
to stay around longer.  I would however, suggest that you wait a few
weeks and see what Apple is about to announce.  I don't know much about
the projected availability dates, but there are supposed to be several
really super new products being announced VERY shortly (like perhaps
this weekend).

If they announce what I think they will, I will probably buy the
high-end 68020(30?) system for myself.  It'll be a nice replacement for
my current intel/MS-DOG machine, and rumor has it that there will be a
vmunix (probably berkeley) available for it (although not immediately).

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