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From: icsu8212@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 12 Mar 90 19:42:12 GMT
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richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins)  writes:
>
>       Four years ago AMIGA            Today IBM
>       --------------------            ---------
>       $2500 AMIGA system              $2400 IBM 80386 with 80387 co-processor
>       $ 500 Monitor (Sony)            $ 600 Monitor NEC 3D
>       $1000 20Meg harddisk            $ 500 65 Meg Harddisk 28msec
>       $ 700 2Meg memory               $ 400 4 Megs of 80ns memory
>       -----                           ------
>       $4700                           $3800
>       + $$$$$ for software            + $$$$$ for software
>
>       Four years ago a dollar was worth more!

(And an IBM is STILL worth less!)

Is this guy for real??  Why doesn't he bother to compare TODAY's
Amiga with Today's IBM?  Oh sure the monitor's cheaper, I have a 1084S
which I am tremendously pleased with and cost only $295!  The hard drive
is the same price since you can use the same drive in either machine, the
Amiga controller may cost more but that is because the typical Amiga
controller is DMA!  I can buy a 105MB Quantum drive: 19ms 1MB/sec WITH a
controller for $1000!  Furhtermore, what about his VGA card, and sound board?
(Not that IBM has put out any sound comparable to the Amiga)  I also just
purchased 2MB RAM for $349 including the board from LightSpeed in Oregon!
Does his system come with the built-in ability to mount RAM drives?  How
about direct access to the added memory that *ANY* program can use (no page
swapping garbage)?

It is people like this that I love to introduce to Cross Dos, especially
when (using their new VGA board at $$$$?) they put up their petty 640x420
by 256 color pictures and say "Let's see your Amiga do THAT!"  I take
immense pleasure in taking THEIR disk, placing it in MY Amiga and proceding
to show them the same picture in HAM mode using 2/3 the memory and having
4096 colors (ok you have to use the arrow keys to see the bottom 20 pixels).
And then just to rub it in, remind them that the graphics chips come STANDARD
with the Amiga!

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