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From: me@pcsbst.UUCP (me)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Color Monitors (was Re:Wait a Sec...)
Message-ID: <656@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 09:35:28 GMT
References: <3163@sdsu.UUCP> <120@pande.UUCP>
Reply-To: pcsbst!me@pcsbst.UUCP (Michael Elbel)
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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In article <120@pande.UUCP> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Ricardo Autobahn) writes:
>>Jos Vermaseren asks:
>>> This leaves the question: why is the American preference for color so much
>>> greater than in Europe? I posed this question a long time ago, but nobody
>>> could come up with an explanation. Anybody has one?
>
>Americans, in general, have more disposible income than the rest of
>the world.
>
>I'm sure the European preference for colour is just as great, but
>the *relative* cost is higher. Same for other toys like CD players.
>

  No, this is not the reason. Maybe, the Americans have more money than the
average European (although I have some doubts on this, especially with 
Germany). But the price difference is not high enough (100$ -200$ from
monochrome to color monitor, less if you use a TV) to cause such a difference
between sold color and monochrome systems.
  I guess the reason is that Americans use the ST often as a game machine
while Europeans do real work with it (text processing, programming and so on).
For this kind of work the monochrome monitor is an absolute need.
You get a system that has a better screen, higher speed and better user inter-
face than any 'industry standard' PC you can buy for double the money.
Especially students like the ST much for their work.
  Isn't the rumour true, that the Americans didn't discover the ST as a
real PC, isn't it true that we have more Sts here in Europe than you in 
America?
  I for myself never thought of buying a ST without color monitor not because
of the price (I connect him to my Color TV with a scart cable for playing
games) but because of the superb screen.

PS. Apologies for my bad english.

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