From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez)
Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
Organization: UPR-Mayaguez--ASEL Lab
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:05:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.074535.5129@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
|> In article <vrq16lj@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
|> 
|> [ ]
|> >
|> >I love MAC users... they consider a 14" monitor BIG!?!?
|> >
|> >(Guess it is, compared to that built-in 9" piece-de-crap on the 1-piece MACs.)
|> 
|> Why is it that Amiga users insist on deriding every little thing about a
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|> competitor's computer that they can think of? The 14" Apple monitor (which
|> I have seen on a IIvi with a Photo CD-ROM drive) is very nice. The 9" monitor
|> is fine. I wish there was a colour version.
|>  

   Not every little thing, not all Amiga users... you are including too
much people in there.  As for deriding a lot of things, I think of it
that I don't like a guy that for example, is showing off his PC with a
cool demo, or a Mac user "multitasking" under System 7.x, and both
respectively believing and telling everyone how GREAT their machine is.

  Is the type of things the Amiga has done FOR YEARS, and we Ami users
hate situations like that, specially when our machines are called
"game machines."

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|> >
|> >|> I believe the price list being quoted on the main unit is educational,
|> >|> BUT those who know how to search the mail order options know that SIMILAR
|> >|> prices can be found there with sufficient effort.  Regardless, this price
|> >|> will be dropping by a lot in Jan. or Feb. when more Quadras come out.  Will
|> >|> the price of the Emplant system be able to drop sufficiently to keep up???
|> >
|> >As with all new hardware, both Emplant and the A4000 will drop significanly
|> >--- probably right after the Christmas rush. So, about the time the Q700's
|> >price is dropping, we'll get a double drop.
|> 
|> The Emplant board is very nice in concept. Noone has one working yet, and it
|> still needs the Mac ROM's. I wonder how Amiga users would feel if people
|> were to start cloning the A4000.
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   | NOT AN EASY TASK!  Btw, come and do it, that will lower the prices.
  
|> The Quadra's are extremely nice computers, if overpriced. Personally I feel
|> the A4000 is more interesting, the NeXT is more productive for me,...

  NeXT must be nice...

|> >
|> >|> No, the Quadra 700 isn't outdated.  It is on this price list that is only
|> >|> a couple of weeks old.  It is second only to the Quadra 950 in general
|> >|> CPU performance.  It is a vital niche in Apple's product line, and if
|> >|> phased out will be replaced by something similar (and cheaper).
|> >
|> >How old the price list is was not the question - it's how old the 700 is.
|> >
|> >I agree that it's not totally outdated... but it's in the same situation the
|> >A3000 is. There are better machines out now, it's not #1 anymore. OF COURSE
|> >the price is low... wanna compare to the A3000? That's going for $1400 now...
|> 
|> The Quadra has a better software base than the A3000, and that's the bottom 
|> line.

   In a lot of areas, yes.  Not in every important area though.

|>  
|> Philip McDunnough
|> University of Toronto
|> philip@utstat.toronto.edu

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