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From: esink@turia.dit.upm.es (Eric Wayne Sink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Slab questions
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:37:43 GMT
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Reply-To: esink@turia.dit.upm.es (Eric Wayne Sink)
Organization: Dept. Ingenieria de Sistemas Telematicos, dit, upm, Madrid, Spain
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OK.  A few questions, some are redundant, but I got here late, so
email answers at your own discretion.

What is the exact deal from NeXT ?  I missed official specs, pricing
and all that...  Was there a press release that someone could send me ?

I'm considering a NeXT for a HOME computer.  Is this a ridiculous idea ?
(I don't think so)  For example, with a PC, I would turn it off
everytime I used it, but I don't want my NeXT rebooting every day do I ?
How often is too often to turn one off ?  Could I configure UUCP to
get my email over a personal phone line ?  How much electricity does
the slab eat if it's left on all the time ?

I've heard that you cannot do development work on a NeXT 105, because
of disk space limitations.  Can someone elaborate on this ?  This
restriction would remove the greatest advantage of the machine for me.

How does the NeXT look to a non-computer expert ?  My wife loves the
Mac.  She is quite computer literate, but she frankly has not much of
an appreciation for memory protection, csh, or preemptive
multitasking.  Her main use is Word Processing.  Can she use the NeXT
easily, without problems ?  Certainly she will need to learn new
things, but she will not like having to use a shell program much.  How
good is WriteNow for the NeXT ?  Also, is the NeXT reliable ?  If the
OS crashes for me, it's not going to bother me so much, but for a
'user', this can be a bad scene.

I'm considering the Mac Classic, which has a very high performance /
price ratio, as well.  Obviously the slab is the vastly superior
machine, but that Classic sure is cheap, and as much as I would like
one, I'm not sure if such a wild machine is overkill.
I like the Mac, but my needs do not justify spending more on a Mac
than the cost of the Classic, when the slab seems so cheap for
the incredible power that it has (color is NOT a big issue for me).
No flames, I'm a big Macintosh fan, I'm also a big Amiga fan, and I
think I could become a big NeXT fan as well.  Right now, I own none of
these three, but I would like to change that situation.  Any advice ?

Eric W. Sink			Residence:	C/Brasil,4 - 9B
Departamento de Telematica			28850 Torrejon de Ardoz
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid		(Madrid) SPAIN
esink@turia.dit.upm.es				{011 341} 677-4429