jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) (10/05/89)
Please excuse a newcomer, but I am a mac owner considering buying
an amiga. I'm real unclear on the models. I'm sure all this has been
beaten to death on the net, so could someone mail me the comparison?
Or could someone fill out the table I found in the monthly posting?
I would really like to know why I should buy the A500 over the older
A1000, and what an A2000 is in comparison to the B2000. Thanks 1E+6!
1040 ST Amiga 1000 Amiga 500 A2000 B2000
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Price New
Price Used
Processor 68000 68000
"Main" Memory 1 Meg 1 Meg
Memory Expansion Yes Yes
Max Memory 4 MB 9 Mb
Screen Resolution 320 X 200 350 X 200
various #'s of 640 X 200 700 X 200
colors. 640 X 480 700 X 440
Disk Drive 720K 880K
Serial Port Yes Yes
Parallel Port Yes Yes
MIDI Port Yes No
DMA Port Yes No
Expansion Bus No Yes
Hard Disk Avail Yes Yes
Blitter No* Yes
Audio Yes Yes
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* Blitter optional according to some things I have seen
* John Babcock att!occrsh!jdsb
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* AT&T Network Systems jdsb@occrsh.att.com
* Oklahoma City, OK Disclaimer: I speak on my own, not as AT&T.martens@calorie.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) (10/06/89)
Your table left out the most important difference between the Amiga and the ST -- the Amiga multitasks. -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Now, was that Woody Allen Drive or Woody Hayes Drive? I can never keep those two straight.