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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Next intro: any effect on Mac _high-end_ prices?
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Date: 28 Sep 90 23:29:23 GMT
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In article <1030@mdavcr.UUCP>, ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes...
 
>In article <1990Sep28.050506.19522@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>>Sure, the Next has lots of negatives, and I'm always glad to point them out. 
>>Some of them in this low price model are: grayscale, and never more than 4096
>>colors even if you upgrade to color -- that is you can kiss 24-bit goodbye; not
>>much room on the included HD for all the software you have license to, and
>>about $1600 upgrade to the next larger HD size; etc.
> 
>I think you are wrong here.  You can buy a NeXT slab with 16 bit colour
>on the board ($7995), or you can buy a 32 bit "NeXT Dimension" colour board
>(with a 33MHz i860 chip, 30,000 shaded polygons/second, 12MB (?) RAM) for 
>about $3995 (retail).  This is expensive for a colour board, but not bad
>when you consider the performance.

Right.  But I don't think you can put the "Next Dimension" board in the the
slab.  So it's 16 bit (really 12 bit I think) for the slab -> 4096.  But let's
not start a thread on this, since we can all read the real facts in the Next
group.

>As for the HD, go buy a external SCSI 300+MB HD from a third party for
>between $1000 and $2000.  Not a bad cost, really.  Cost out what a
>similiar mac would set you back.


I think about the same.  My only point here was that $5000 didn't really get
you all the software you have rights to under Next.

[opinions about Apple]
> 
>I really hope NeXT is successful.  I also hope Apple is successful.  It
>may be that success for NeXT will put pressure on Apple and make them a
>little more hungry/competitive.

Sounds good to me.

Robert

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