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- From: unregistered@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Betting on an A1800
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:51:37 GMT
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- hgm@ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes:
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- >unregistered@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:
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- >>Just guesswork this, but Commodore seem to have left room for a machine between
- >>the A1200, and the forthcoming A1500/2000 replacement.
-
- >Yep. A big gap.
-
- >>My guess is that at some point, probably next year, a new low cost machine
- >>(probably called the A1800) will appear at around the 500-700 pound price mark.
-
- >No. It's called the 4000/30, and should be available very soon. In terms of
- >US costs, it should weigh in at around $2200.00. As the name implies, it's a
- >4000 with a 68030. Saves on tooling costs, since the AGA is an interim
- >technology, and a new line of machines should show up in a couple of years.
-
- I am talking about a LOW COST machine, that would compete with the Falcon, and
- the '486's. There is the room for it, and it does make sense to come in with a
- better machine at the 500 - 700 pound mark. The above machine does not fill
- this middle ground.
-
- >They will keep making the 2000 and 600 as long as they can sell them. The
- >600 is the C64 of the 90's, and the 2000 is needed for those "Toaster
- >People" (until NewTek comes out with a new toaster that doesn't need an
- >Amiga). The 3000 is dead (check out Creative Computer's ad in AmigaWorld).
-
- >This is all a combination of rumor, speculation and the barest threads of
- >fact.
-
- The 2000 machine is to be replaced by an AGA machine, in the near future.
- Perhaps this is what the 4000/30 is for.
-
- >--hal
-
- >--
- >hgm@ncsu.edu "Office Buildings are our Pyramids."
-
- The beef sandwich.
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