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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Subject: Re: Amiga portable
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 20:52:32 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May29.205232.11054@NCoast.ORG>
Keywords: Need a portable?  Get a PC and a serial cable.
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In article <May.28.22.09.28.1991.11485@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389) writes:
>I hate to say it, but who would really PURCHASE an Amiga Portable?
>The price would be more than an Amiga 500, so forget that market.
>That market wouldn't want to play games on an LCD display anyway.
>The price would be more than an Amiga 2000, so maybe that market would
>have a chance, but at that price the person could buy an Amiga 2500 or
>3000.  80% of those sales are in video or graphics production.  Who
>would want to do either of those on an LCD?
	So what? Have you ever looked at the price of a PC laptop or
portable? How about the Mac portable! Heck, THAT one cost about $10,000 for
a lot less performance than a desktop Mac for the same price would give you.
People buy a portable TO CARRY AROUND. They don't buy them if they intend to
keep it in one spot all the time. And with the Amiga, you could even use
the interlaced displays, since LCD wouldn't have the flicker problem, so a
700x630 or so display should be possible, which is about as good as most
mono VGA displays.
>
>PC clones.  If your main application is on the Amiga, there is no
>reason that you can't do data entry or text processing (initial text
>entry) on a cheap portable PC clone and upload it to the Amiga for
>processing, formatting, printing, etc.
	What if you use Amiga word processors? A lot of good a MicroSoft Word
document is going to do you on an Amiga at your home/office. What if you want
to use things that are only available on the Amiga? People are working on
packages developed with AmigaVision, how are they supposed to use/demo that
in the field without an Amiga?


				Dave


