Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!bbn!oberon!nunki.usc.edu!sal14.usc.edu!rjung From: rjung@sal14.usc.edu (Robert allen Jung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 1 million... Message-ID: <2098@nunki.usc.edu> Date: 7 Dec 88 19:59:30 GMT References: <11767@cup.portal.com> <5376@cbmvax.UUCP> <3fff1a00.14e07@gtephx.UUCP> <3057@sugar.uu.net> <843@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: news@nunki.usc.edu Reply-To: rjung@sal14.usc.edu (Robert allen Jung) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 42 In article <3057@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Tell them that on comp.sys.amiga. We are uniformly disgusted by the Commodore >advertising, and wish they did as good a job as Atari. Atari has some effective >advertisements comparing the hardware with the PC and the Apple IIGS, where it >shines (as does the Amiga, but Commodore doesn't see fit to tell anyone). Are we talking about the same Atari here? The biggest gripe (okay, one of) from Atari US customers is that Atari is not doing *enough* advertising (outside of the video game division, I mean). Or are things overseas _really_ that great? I'm confused... (Still, _some_ good Atari news is welcome) In article <843@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >That's odd; the opinion here seems to be that comparing hardware isn't >nearly as good as comparing applications: users don't understand the >diferences between buswidths, microprocessors, and clock speeds. On >the other hand, it's probably tough to convince the consumer that >"You can get a spreadsheet for the {Atari ST,Amiga} that is just >as good as any for the {Mac/IIgs/PC}". A lot of the people I see who look at the hardware-comparison ads believe "bigger is better". More RAM, resolution, faster speeds, etc., do make some impressions on some people. A casual shopper won't be too worried about getting "as good as" software in the beginning, I think. ('sides, they can always get the Spectre 128/PC-ditto if they _really need_ "as good as" software... B-) --R.J. B-) P.S. WOW! What happened to the net these last few days??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: These are my views, and mine alone. # ## # Mailing address: Beats me, just reply to this message # ## # (rjung@nunki.usc.edu?) ## ## ## #### ## ####