Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 07:23:44 05/20/99
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On May 20, 1999 at 08:24:20, O. Veli wrote: >On May 19, 1999 at 20:42:29, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >>Lets look at the Novag Sapphire, which cost around $500 where I come from. And >>now look at a gameboy for $79, plus the game $30. If this machine can match the >>top portables, plus you get a screen to play chess with, and a Analysis fuction, >>then it is going to destroy the portable chess market. > > Sapphire 2 costs around $200 in the USA and will at most be around $300 with >the safest and fastest postage anywhere in the world. I do not think any >software, how well written it is, cannot make up the difference in hardware >between GameBoy and Sapphire 2 which is designed to play chess only. It will >definetely have more bells and whistles and may be nice program to get a child >into the chess world, but that is all about it. For a tournament player Sapphire >2 is still the top portable model. Maybe so, but I also remember people saying the same thing about CM6K, and now look where that is. No 1.
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