| [News] Amiga lowering A1200 prices | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 23-Mar-2000 13:14 GMT by Christian Kemp | 21 comments
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The newsticker at the German Amiga shop AS WebShop reports that Amiga International is lowering prices for A1200's and quote DM 199 and DM 249 as their respective retail prices for A1200's without HD and with 170 MB HD.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 23-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (Sledge):
* No RAM och CPU cards avaiable? What about DCE's Blizzard 68k-boards or
* the Apollo-series for the 1200? They are cheap and still very useful in
* a Amiga Classic environment. Don't think that the classic OS will just
* die out bcoz of Tao.
Available or not, who's going to want to use them? You have to understand there is more to it than "I can get them right now and do [application] with them."
Well that's all very nice and good, but what if that machine running that [application] breaks down? What are you going to replace it with? You cannot hop down to the corner computer store and buy a new motherboard... and meanwhile you have a client screaming at you to get it up and working.
As for using them for kiosks, that's a great idea.. 8 years ago. This market is also being overcome by PCs. Not because of price, but more because "I can run Director/Flash" on them.
Amigas made kick-ass kiosks. But compared to what is available now, they are paling in comparisson. And even the composite video outs on them is not such a big deal anymore either, that option is available on $50 video cards now, at higher resolution, with more colours, and actual hardware 3d.
And the AmiJOE cards.. those are priced at 599EUR and up. If I have done my conversions right, you can buy a whole PC with a monitor and such for at least that amount or less. |
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