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Offline lsmart

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Re: why are sams so expensive?
« on: August 12, 2009, 10:31:15 PM »
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Amiga stuff has always been expensive.


Not true. In germany the original A500 sold for 1000DM in 1986 (if I recall correctly).  A reasonable equipped PC was no cheaper and it didn´t even have color, was slower and had no sound except for the beeps. Not to mention the OS.

A Sam is as expensive as a well equipped Mac mini. You don´t get as much for the price, that´s for sure, but you can´t say that it is impossible to buy one. Hey at least you can buy new hardware to run AmigaOS4 on it today! During the years before it was much harder to get PPC-Amigas.

Of course a cheap PC and cloanto´s "Amiga Forever" might be all the Miggy you need, but I am happy with Sam so far.
 

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Re: why are sams so expensive?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2009, 10:33:15 PM »
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I never said "Amigas have always cost more than PCs", I said they've always been expensive.  My 512k A500 with external floppy cost well over a thousand dollars (US) in 1989.


Well they were cheaper here (equiv. 600$ US in 1989 (no 2nd floppy) IIRC), but then maybe the avg. income was less here. New computers in general have been expensive until 2005, I´d say.