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From: mlarken@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: A question from the masses...
Message-ID: <1004@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 9 Dec 89 14:56:05 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Pardon me for sounding uninformed...
     I'm a somewhat naive newcomer to not only the network, but also the 
NeXT.  I'm a first-year undergraduate student in Nova Scotia, and I recently
attended a seminar on the NeXT, which demonstrated many of its "flashier"
abilities.

     My problem is this:  I still use my old Apple //e, but I'm experienced
on the IBM, Macintosh, Amiga and some workstation-type computers.  Until
recently, I was dead-set on the Mac2 as a choice for a new computer.

     Then along came the NeXT.  From what I saw, it can do anything the Mac2
can, at a marginally higher cost (if you include the accessories one must add
to the Mac2.  Beyond this, I'm a student, so I get student rates -- around 
$6,500 Canadian without the OHD.

     I know I'm asking an unobjective group (I'd get a far different response
from a bunch of Mac users :-)) -- but what do you think I should do?

     I'll want it for business applications, DTP, graphics and sound.  I hear
there's a color board in the works ... and I don't mind saying my loyalty to
the //e makes me want to support Woz or Jobs -- and Jobs has outdone his
peers this time round.

Markum.