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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <13479@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 17:30:28 GMT
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   There have been many rumours flying around about the '3000 for a
long time.  The one thing that isn't rumour about it is that it will
not be out for a while: at least another year at the earliest.

   I can say one thing about the Amiga 3000: it had better be powerful. 
Commodore has been dragging their feet so long with it that, if it isn't
extremely powerful, it will be out-of-date the day it hits the market.
There is just too much competition from IBM, Compaq, and Apple for 
Commodore to succeed in producing an under-powered machine after too-\
long a wait.
 
   By 'extemely powerful' I mean the following features:
   A 68040 running @ 25Mhz, 32-bit chipset running at the same speed,
and a full-color resolution of at least 1280x800 non-interlaced.  If
Commodore does wait a full year before releasing this machine, it had 
better not use the 68030.  By time this machine hits the market, it
will be competing head-to-head with 68040 and 80486 machines, so it
must also use a 68040 in order to be competitive.