mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu (05/29/91)
Would someone refresh my memory on what the 3000 Power Up deal costs you, when
the deal expires, and what you get for your money?
Also, can you scratch certain features and get a lower price, or is it a
package only as-is deal?
R. Luebbert = mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu (UT Medical Branch Galveston)
Bitnet: mrimages@utmbeachjohns@dworkin.Amber.COM (John Silvia) (05/30/91)
> Would someone refresh my memory on what the 3000 Power Up deal costs you, whe > the deal expires, and what you get for your money? The power-up deal has three tiers: The A3000/16 for $1859 The A3000/25 for $2259 The A3000/25 100 meg for $2859?(not sure) The deal expires at the end of June or July (June I think). One thing you should know is that the dealer is getting a discount on his hardware when he takes orders for the Power-Up deal. That is why a dealer is managing to give away free monitors with his machines in Chicago or something. What do you get? You get the machine, the new mouse, 2 megs of ram, a 50 or 100 meg hard disk, a keyboard, AmigaVision, AmigaDOS 2.02 and some manuals. (NOT A BAD DEAL EITHER - it cost me $2290 to get my 16Mhz 3000 w/6 megs of ram, and it flys almost as fast as my 2500!) > > Also, can you scratch certain features and get a lower price, or is it a > package only as-is deal? It is not possible to alter the deal in any way, other than to add to it. The machines come as they are sold to the public. There is nothing on the machine that I would even attempt to leave out. The only pieces that come with it that could be left out are the case, keyboard, mouse, Amigavision the manuals and AmigaDOS. As far as I'm concerned, all of those are well worth the money I spent. I would seriously advise that you consider upgrading to the 16mhz machine, and then getting 4 megs of static column ram. That will give you 6 megs total, and the machine will be fantastic. If you are concerned about speed, well don't be. Later on this year, 68040 boards will be out, and they will be CHEAPEST for the A3000 series machines, and the 040 should run the same speed on both versions of the 3000. Also, in case you don't know about the 3000, other things that you get with the machine are: Flicker-Fixed Video output through standard IBM VGA compatible port, graphics resolutions with 320,640,1280 dots across and 200, 400 down, and that doesn't count the Productivity interlace (640x960) and the overscan that is possible in all graphics modes. RAMSEY Ram controller, intended to help prevent system hits when syncing memory between fast and chip, as well as syncing to boards that take over the bus. Zorro-III slots. Built in SCSI interface with Quantum Prodrive (50 or 100 megs). Very small case, when compared to the 2000 (or even the 1000, in some respects.) There's more, but that's the basic best-of list that I can think of in a hurry.