From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: 4000
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:55:43 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep13.215039.29476@hubcap.clemson.edu><35072@cbmvax.commodore.com>
  <ERICJ.92Sep14101302@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM>

Got to jump in!

>In article <35072@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson
>- Amiga Networking) writes:
>
>   Word on GEnie (from folks at the WOC show) is that Creative Computers is
>   taking orders at $2900.
>
>   ANYTHING that you can't afford is "overpriced".  The consensus on GEnie
>   seems to be that folks are surprised that it's so _IN_expensive for what yo
u
>   get.
>
>   Brian
>          +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
>          Brian Jackson    Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
>                           bj@cbmvax.commodore.com
>
>Consider the differences between the GEnie crowd and the internet crowd
>and the difference in consensus between the GEnie crowd and the internet
>crowd. Can we learn anything here?
>
>Something I *can* afford that is supposed to be a technology upgrade
>(but is a reversal on the HD i/f and a total stagnation on the audio,

Could it be, that the reason they put in IDE is because they wanted to appeal t
o the clone
crowd? Makes some sense to me! (I like SCSI however!)

>the two things that concern me most) and is priced above comparable
>machines from other vendors is *definitely* overpriced.

I can't afford an A4000, and I'm very suprised that the cost is so low, look at
 the '040
competition, and the A4000 is better than most of those! (p.s. name a comparabl
e
machine priced less --- '486's don't do it!)

I wish Comm. would make a lower cost, 32 bit wide, AGA chip equipped machine, t
hat's the
machine I would buy!

>
>Consider a 486 machine with one of several advanced audio boards and
>you have (IMHO) a heckuva lot better price/performance figure than
>you do with what the A4000 looks to be.
>
>Soooo, unless you are the type who *has* to have the advanced Amiga
>graphics (do you want to target your market that tightly) you are
>probably a lot better off looking around first.
>
>I've been waiting a *long* time for an audio upgrade on the Amiga.
>This should be an easy thing to do given the state of the art in
>audio electronics and the current status of the Amiga's audio. If I
>have to buy an add on card to do this it makes me consider other
>machines that accept decent audio add on cards.

Why? The Amiga has decent audio cards, and look what else you get!
But then again I don't need any better audio (yet).

>
>This is not a flame. This is one of your customers responding.
>
This is not a flame either, just trying to understand!
Also, one of there customers...

>
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Bob Comer