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From: carson@cs.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar)
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 trade up offer
In-Reply-To: don@brahms.udel.edu's message of 29 Apr 91 22:15:45 GMT
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Date: 1 May 91 00:12:48

I just want to quote some figures to support the claim that
Commodore's pricing structure is way out of line, especially for
educational and developer pricing.

In article <20944@brahms.udel.edu> don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:

   >valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
   >>A3000	16Mhz	2Mb	 50MB hard	$1850
   >>	25MHz	2Mb	 50MB hard	$2250
   >>	25Mhz	5Mb	100Mb hard	$3200
   >>	25Mhz	5Mb	200Mb hard	$3650
   >
   >Just wondering, why is there a 1000$ difference between a 100mb with 5 megs
   >and a 50mb with 2 megs? Isn't that a bit ridiculous?

	[Comments about quality of parts, etc. deleted]

80-ns 1Mx4 SCRAMs go for ~$35 each in quantities _I_ can buy -
Commodore had _better_ be getting better prices than this.  This gives
a price of $280/4MB.

The Quantum Prodrive 105S goes for $385 (The LPS 105S 1" drive is the
same price).  Again, I assume Commodore can get at least that price,
if not better (Come on - these prices are Quantity 1).

That means that for $2915, I can put together a 25 MHz A3000 with 150
MB of HD and 6 MB of RAM (moving the FAST to CHIP).  That's 50 MB of
HD and 1 MB of RAM more than C='s system, all for a savings of $285.

Similarly, I can add a Quantum Prodrive 210S ($740) and get a system
with 250 MB of HD / 6 MB of RAM for $3270, $380 cheaper than C='s
price for less.

Personally, I'd sell the 50MB Quantum and buy more RAM. Let's see, get
$150 for the 50 MB Quantum (reasonable, esp. new) --- That would give
me a 25 MHz 3000 with 14 MB of RAM and a 200 MB HD for $3680.  Only
$30 over C='s price and I've gotten an extra 8 MB of RAM.  Nice.



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