Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 1 million... Message-ID: <12058@cup.portal.com> Date: 3 Dec 88 14:21:56 GMT References: <358@sdcc14.ucsd.edu> <11767@cup.portal.com> <79622@sun.uucp> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 25 Chuck: My comments have nothing to dowith ego. They have to do with what my personal experience is from working at a computer store and from trends I see among the computer users I meet. *My* experience is that most people who walked in the door of the store I worked at bought the A500 because of the tremedous amount of good game software for it - most of the people who bought the machine did not buy it as their first or primary computer! The vast majority already owned Macs, MS-DOS, or even (gasp) the ST! I never said the A500 isn't a nice machine, both it and the ST have their pros and cons. But in terms of wat I see happning in the expansion area, I did an informal survey on Delphi and almost *half* of the people in the ST-Log base had either already upgraded from a 1040 to a Mega 2 or 4 or were planning on it very shortly - considering that the Mega 2 CPU can be had for $995 thats not an incredible figure. My experience in the A500 shows that the vast majority upgrade to 1 meg, but no further (in fact, most A500 buyers buy the machine with the 1 meg upgrade - which brings the price of the A500 to the level of the Mega 2 rather than the 1040 for comparison.) Again, this may not be true across the country, I'd like to see a survey and compare stats - who knows, the vast majority of Amiga owners may in fact have 9 megs, but I'm basing my comments on personal experience and an educated examination of trends. I never wanted a flame war but certain egos wanted to turn this into one. Pete