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- From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A4000 price, availablity
- Message-ID: <72381@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 23:05:35 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: usa
- References: <Bzs70s.C6E@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
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- >I have owned an A1000 since early in 1986. It is clearly time to upgrade.
- >I will buy either a PC clone or an A4000. Cheap PC clones can be had.
- >It appears they have their own problems with processors outruning antiquated
- >busses and graphics accelerators being good at windows or DOS but not
- >both etc. As I wade through the morass of ISA, EISA, VESA VL, VGA, SVGA,
- >etc (without the benefit of good definitions of what these specs actually
- >mean), the seamlessly designed A4000 looks very attractive.
- >
- >For those of you in-the-know, I have a few questions:
- >
- >1. Is the A4000 available now?
-
- Yes
-
- >
- >2. What is the street (mailorder?) price?
-
- ~2800.00
-
- >
- >3. Does the A4000 have a SCSI driver available yet?
-
- You really mean SCSI controller, and not yet (specifacally for the 4000 that
- is, some older ones will work, just not very fast...) The new SCSI controller
- will be ready SOON!
-
- >
- >4. I have spent a considerable amount of money on software for my A1000.
- > (E.g. WordPerfect, Manx C, Superbase, Digiview, DeluxePaint, Logistix,
- > etc., etc.) Will any of this work on the A4000?
-
- I don't have my machine yet, so all I can say, is that I've heard is most
- things work, some need the latest verision though...
-
- >
- >5. In general do software companies offer upgrades at reduced prices to
- > registered owners of older versions of their software?
-
- Most of the time, this is the case (I've never seen it any other way, unless
- it's a game, and then sometimes, they'll do it for games!)
-
- >
-
- >6. Is the A4000 going to be hardware upgradable? That is, when new pro-
- > cessors are released or new graphics options are made available,
- > how easy will it be to upgrade the A4000? I know that this might be
- > impossible to answer. Has CBM indicated anything about the status
- > of the A4000 with regard to future hardware development directions?
-
- Definitely the processor can be upgraded. I don't know about the Graphics
- (custom) chips.
-
- >
- >Thanks in advance!
- >
- >Alan Peters
- >
- >--
- Bob Comer
-