From: cs922012@ariel.yorku.ca (GEOFFREY MARTIN CARMAN)
Subject: Re: HELP--AMIGA OR IBM PC CLONE?
Keywords: Neuroses lobotomies penis envy spam spam spam humbug 
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:32:13 GMT

In article <C0prv2.Hu5@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>> Flipping through my AmigaWorld... 16-bit sound card, CD quality: roughly $600
>>	for the SunRize product; internal modem: EXACTLY the same as PC prices
>>	(remember, we have a 16-bit "IBM" slot or two also...); and video
>>	upgrades?  Sheesh.. we have a veritable plethora, from DCTV to HAM-E
>>	to Visiona and Opal-Vision; you makes your bets and you pays...
>
>600.00 for 16 bit sound????
>
>And a "plethora" of video cards?  Want to list some specs and prices,
>say between $200.00 and $600.00.
>
An Interesting Amiga feature is that most people are satisfied with the satndard (i.e. the ones that come built in) for everyday use, and thus must video boards are for the high end.  That is they have some awesome specs, and consequnetly high proce tags.  
	So to answer your request for a Amiga video board, what do you want it for?  To do animations cheap, in 736X482 ?  Well then DCTV fits the bill, or Opal Vison (OplaVision is about $999 so maybe you won't want to include it.)  Want 1600X1280X16.7 million colors?  Well then a DMI Vivid 24, or Visiona (this has not officially been released, but is due very soon).  And so on.  It depends what type ypu want.  Yes cheap upgrades to say 1024X768X256 are not cheap.  (Unless you go the route of OmniBus, which allo




ws you to use a VGA card in the AT slots of an Amiga for Amiga graphics).  

>> You really mean to say they have 33mHz 486 machines now for under a $1000?
>>	Good quality 486s manufactured by a company that has a good solid
>>	reputation and a sound production base?  Really? From who?  vortex makes
>>	the 486SLC bridgeboard, and I haven't seen ANY Dell, IBM, or Compaq 
>>	machines for that price...
>
>First: the 486SLC is not a 486,it is a souped up 386.  Seems like Amiga
>users are the ones that are getting sucked in by shams.  Second: There
>are 486 computers from companies more reputable then "Vortex" for under
>$1000.00.  Real 486.  Not souped up ones, but they have a hard drive
>and a monitor...which your emulator doesn't.
>
>> And, I might add, you failed to address the Mac capabilities - you honestly
>>	cannot say that the IBM has better word-publishing or graphics
>>	capabilities than the Mac (or the Amiga, for that matter...)
>
>There is not a single high-end Macintosh (or unix, for that matter)
>desktop publishing program that does not run on the PC.  We also have
>all of their high end graphics programs, but Coreldraw steps all over
>them, and they go crawling back to the Mac.
>
>>

In every review of ProDraw 1.0 for Windows that I personnaly have seen it has been compared to Corel Draw as equal and in many ways better.  Pro Draw is an Amiga structured drawing program ported from the Amiga. 
 

>Try to think of a high-end mac DTP program that doesn't run on the PC.
>Quark, Ventura, Pagemaker...we've got them all.
>
>
>


		Geoffrey Carman
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