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From: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
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Subject: Amiga advertising - was Re: TV advert in UK
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Date: 30 Nov 88 07:51:17 GMT
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Kevan Gelling writes:
>Nice one Commodore.

On the other hand, the ad in today's New York Times fell right next
to an equal sized ad for the Atari Mega 2.

The Atari ad gave a nice table showing why the Atari is faster, cheaper,
and more powerful than a Mac SE.

The Amiga ad had a couple of big pictures, and "Get a free VCR!"

In the Science Times section of the NY Times, I'd think the Atari
ad would be much more effective.  I'd like to see an ad comparing
all three directly.  (Unfortunately, the Amiga might come out
at the bottom, with the slowest clock speed and the least standard
memory, and no SCSI port - hmm.  Maybe I should trade in my 2000. :-).
For the $400 or so price difference between the Atari Mega 2 
and the Amiga 500, you could just about add 2M memory, or 1M plus
a CMI processor accelerator, to even the odds, but that doesn't
make a good advertisement.

	- Ranjit


   
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