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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BusinessLand (reasonable)
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.071621.25254@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 90 07:16:21 GMT
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In article <132@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry
Merriman) writes:
[...]
> But, even though the IIci is much cheaper, the best academic
> discount model available here (UCLA) has only 4MB RAM and 80MB HD,
> for $5200. So, you need to add 4MB RAM (about $300) and a 180 MB HD
> ($1200 at academic discount---thats the biggest drive they offer here)
> to _approach_ the NeXT on memory capacity. This would bring the price
> up to $6700. Then, add $150 for the keyboard and $1100 for a 2 page
> display BW monitor (closest thing available here to the NeXT monitor)
> and your up to $7950.  Pretty steep, for what you get---which, again,
> is primarily access to the Mac software base and GUI.

This is not a useful comparison. Do you really believe adding a whole bunch
of parts to a Mac will turn it into a NeXT? You don't need an 8M Mac with 260M
hard disk to run Mac applications. If you are happy with Mac functionality,
you can get a workable system for much less than the price of a NeXT. If you
really need the features unique to a NeXT, you aren't going to buy a Mac.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu