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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
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Subject: Re: 1 million...
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Date: 3 Dec 88 14:21:56 GMT
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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