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From: sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Read the fine print!
Message-ID: <15640002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 22:35:05 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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After reading all these glowing reports on the net, the information on
the new NeXTs just showed up in the mail.  I am seriously disappointed!
Hate to burst your bubble folks, but there are some serious missunderstandings
being pushed around.

#1  The NeXTdimension color board can only be added to a cube.
#2  The NeXTstation and NeXTstation color have no expansion capabilities.

The new price for the cube is $7995 without the MO drive and the MO drive
is $2995.  In other words folks, No effective price reduction!

Why does the cube cost $3000 more than the slab?!?!?!?!?
That is outrageous!
The CPU board in the slab is different from the one in the cube.
There is no hope of going from a slab to a cube.

Why would NeXT design 2 CPU boards that are essentially identical?
Actually the slab cpu is not as high performance as the cube, it has
lower throughput and can only hold half as much RAM.

The slab should have been a 2 slot cube!  Now that would have been hot!

I really don't see why the slabs had to be "closed" boxes.