nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) (03/08/91)
>In article <1991Mar4.022332.8904@csn.org> ullevig@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Ullevig Zachary A) writes: >>Think about the target market for each machine. The Amiga computers are not >>designed to be great computers, but they are designed to take a big chunck out >>of the game market. They don't have much power, but they are given great >>graphics and sound to make for good game machines. Macs are too expensive to I would like to know what this assertion is based on. There were several posts on comp.sys.amiga several months ago comparing an Amiga 3000 with all of the Macs. The Amiga was under the Amax emulator running a Mac program called Speedometer which measures computer speed in several different ways. The Amiga 3000 turned out to run faster than all of the Macs except the fx which costs nearly three times as much. Also, Commodore is now after the Scientific and Higher Education markets. No one will ever catch up with IBM in the business market. I listened to a prominent engineer speak yesterday and he said that one thing you'd better bring with you to the engineering field is knowlege in the use of computers, and, he said, especially in computer graphics! So, graphics and graphics co-processors are important in more than just games. Also, while I'm on my soapbox. ...there was some German guy on Computer Cronicles (sp?) awhile back and he was making comparisons between the german and american markets. He that in America, Joe Sixpack will hop out of his car, run into a coputer store, look around for 15 minutes, and will buy a Mac with his credit card. In Germany, the german buyer will shop around for at the very least, a month or two before spending that kind of money. The german buyer will ask each representive for technical specifications, techinical evaluations, and will get third party technical evaluations, and he will read all of the above before buying a computer. All computer stores in Germany, keep plenty of specifications and evaluations around due to the constant demand for them. ....well Amiga is the largest selling computer in Germany as it is in the UK and in europe in gereral. That has to tell you something. And I also believe it will do better here amoung technically oriented people who will also base their purchases, at least in part, on a technical evaluation rather than ...a 30 second TV comercial or something. The software will follow. There is already a lot of good stuff coming out of europe and else where. Some guy from New Zealand (sp?) just this week came out with IBeM which is an XT emulator for only $30. Gad! NCW