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AMSTRAD - PCW

I think this section is wrong. The PCW was made cheaply, but also sold ridiculously cheaply. The article kind of implies that £300 was a lot of money, when it was rock-bottom-prices.

The rival machines were also 10x as expensive. And I mean that. A 1986 Apple MAC cost well over £2000. Only businesses could really afford them. Amstrad not only produced a comparable machine for 10% of the price but the Amstrad machine was arguably superior to the Apple MAC.

I think it needs to change because it implies something that isn't true - the article suggests he made cheap things and sold them expensively, when in fact he made brilliant things, very cheaply, then also sold them very cheaply. And it probably doesn't give enough credit to how brilliant Amstrad actually were in the 1980s. They weren't ripping people off with cheap rubbish - they were making brilliant machines, at ridiculously low prices (compared to Apple Mac and IBM)


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Pronunciation of his name

For those of us who don't live in the UK, & haven't heard his name spoken in the news, it'd be useful to state how his last name is pronounced. Whether the initial "s" is like "sound" or like the sweet stuff. (FWIW, silence on this detail suggests it's identical to the sweet stuff.) -- llywrch (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is identical to the sweet stuff. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:07, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Referring to him by his "Lord" moniker

Just saw on the Amstrad em@iler page, that he is referred to as "Lord Sugar", I know Wikipedia likes to use the most popular references to naming people, but is this really "professional" and does anyone else get this treatment, and does this include the Sir moniker too? Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber? Sir Cliff? Sir Matt? etc Marccarran (talk) 20:13, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from the label in the infobox, direct mentions of his title, and one use as a brand name, I found only three usages of "Lord Sugar" in this article. I have changed these three to simply "Sugar". --Khajidha (talk) 18:27, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Peerage?

I have seen this guy referred to as 'Lord Sugar' repeatedly (even in this article in the past) and in the lede it says 'Baron Sugar'. I am wondering; does this man have a peerage, baronetcy or knighthood? They are all vastly different things and not interchangeable, it is also illegal to claim said prenomen if one doesn't have it, besides it being tantamount to fraud. Can we settle this once and for all? If he has a title, add it to the article. If he doesn't, stop referring to him with various titles of nobility please. --121.210.33.50 (talk) 08:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

He is "Baron Sugar of Clapton" which is shortened in normal use to "Lord Sugar", he also has a knighthood so is sometimes refered to as Sir altough that was before his baronetcy, so I dont see a problem. MilborneOne (talk) 09:21, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

House of Lord

He rarely cast a vote. Lsst time in 2017.

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