Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekig5!wayneck
From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Laptop Amiga
Message-ID: <3229@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 88 19:51:20 GMT
References: <3210@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> <4045@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <4045@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes:
. In article <3210@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
. >What I want is a Laptop Amiga
. 
. >2. CPU - since we have a power cord give us the fastest 68020 or 68030
. >that can be put in.  Put in the fastest 32 bit wide memory that can be
. >afforded.  This may require a little glue logic for the Amiga chip set,
. >but should be reasonable.  Give the user 1meg of chip RAM and at least
. >2megs of fast RAM.  
. 
. No,  keep it cheap.  What do you need a super laptop for?  If you need that
. much power,  put it on your desk where it doesn't require expensive
. miniaturizing/cooling.

I talking sports car here, not a VW bug.  Anyway I already have a Amiga 1000,
a Mac, an Atari 1040, and soon a PC clone -- I don't have room for a B2000.
When I go an a trip, I'll only take one computer with me, so I want a powerful
one.  Price isn't the problem, if the computer is good enough I can find the
money.

: >6. Price $4500 in stores, $1500 to college students.  Get college students
: >hooked on the Amiga and when they are out of school they will sell many
: >more.
: 
: Do I detect a college student here?

Nope.  Been out for almost 5 years.  However if you do sell a lot to college
students, when they get out of school they go all over the place.  Many go
to places that have money.  If the student are carrying the Amiga with them
to the places of money it can grow into sales.  These sales can lead to more
sales and pretty soon Amigas are all over the place.  Spreading and SPreading
and SPReading and SPREading and SPREADING and S*P*R*E*A*D*I*N*G until the 
Amiga is a very major player in the computer market.  

Just is case you don't think this can happen just think about the Mac and
how it is getting into business.  TV ads, phooey, no it is caused by Apple
carries.  I knew one that came here a few years ago with his $1000 Mac. 
He kept showing people here all these neat Mac things, next thing you know
we gone from zero Macs to dozens around here, and the speading isn't over
yet.  At the rate things are going, in a few years there will be more Macs
than people here.  The TV ads just prime the minds of the buyers, the 
carriers do the damage.

> I'm not a marketroid (All together now: but I play one on TV...),  but selling
> below cost is never a good idea.  That's why I suggest the lesser machine to
> start with.

Who said anything about selling below cost?  If you are building things in
large numbers a $1000 is a fair amount of money.

                                   Wayne Knapp