Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas
From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: NeXT?
Keywords: pricing, maintenance, replacement
Message-ID: <10607@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 90 21:02:20 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Here is a little section of an article posted in comp.sys.next, for those of
you who don't follow this newsgroup.  Make your own comparisons between these
policies and Apple's (including AppleCare):

|   My mouse and keyboard had been feeling unwell lately (too much
| hacking on Cassandra) and I went to my local NeXT rep. at Cornell
| to see how much it would cost to get them replaced:
|    Keyboard:   $303.25
|    Mouse:      $135
|    + shipping + New York's 7%
|
|   Phew.... NeXT is making a hefty chunk with those.... Now I see
| why a one year service contract is $800... (By the way, all these
| prices are academic prices, multiply by a suitable fudge factor
| for Businessland (try 150%)).

-Michael

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