Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!weber.ucsd.edu!pbiron From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What's NeXT's Eighth Breakthrough should be ? Message-ID: <2968@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 20 Sep 90 21:06:31 GMT References: Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Reply-To: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) Distribution: comp Lines: 58 Nntp-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu In article , ty@thedog.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang) writes: |> After the release of New NeXT, here is a question for NeXT's first-year |> personal buyers. |> |> "Are you regret to buy(love) NeXT too early ?" |> |> --- |> Tyng-Jing Yang |> |> ps: Early Birds should get the worms(reward,not bugs) |> -- |> ============================ |> === Tyng-Jing Yang === |> ============================ I just bought my Cube about a month ago. I, for one, am glad I got it when I did!!!!! From the postings in this group over the last few days, it seems that many of the reasons I bought my Cube are NOT THERE in the new models (at least, not without paying extra for them). These include the Optical, Alegro CL, 3 empty slots for additional boards, TeX, development environ, etc. The only thing from the new announcements that I want is the 68040 (and NeXTStep 2.0) which I can get as an upgrade at a great price. I don't need, nor want to pay for, color: so the color stuff is a noop for me. [Please, no flame wars about the following!!!] My impression is that NeXT is trying to compete with the Sun SLC (based on the $4995 price of the new basic model). When I was shopping, I looked HARD at the SLC and bought an "old" Developer's Cube (330 Meg Drive) instead -- BECAUSE IT WAS CHEAPER!!!!! Although I could get the SLC at discount price of $3600, by the time you add a disk, tape backup, Sun Hard/Software support, development environment (CL for Sparcs is about $1500), etc the price came to more than the educational price of the "old" Developer's Cube. I use my optical as backup medium so I don't need a tape unit. NeXT's hard/software support is already there. CL is ("was") there, etc, etc, etc. [Note, by delevopment, *I* mean research development, *NOT* commercial development] I may be a bit unusual in my wants/needs for a machine :-) If the rumors are true (that there are already more pre-orders for the new boxes than the current install base of the old ones) I'd say that I am a bit unusual! However, if the rest of world likes the new boxes (and goes out and buys them) then I am all for it!!!!! The more NeXT machines out there the better. Paul Biron pbiron@ucsd.edu (619) 534-5758 Central University Library, Mail Code C-075-R Social Sciences DataBase Project University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. 92093