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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 4 Nov 90 12:11:17 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
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I suppose the major issue here is really

                       Why should we care?

If the NeXT is the best machine for your purposes, get it.  If it ain't, 
don't get it.  I don't know your needs, so how can I possibly give you 
reasons for picking one over the other?  Some people want Unix, other 
people don't give a rats ass about having it.  If you want to run (say) 
Quicken more than you want Unix, then the right answer for *you* may be 
different than if your preferences are reversed.  Different people have 
different uses for their computer, you have to choose based on your needs.

Otherwise, I see no use for this thread other than to start up yet another 
"My computer is better than your computer" debate.  I think we waste 
enough bandwidth with such silly debates already.  I suggest that anyone 
that thinks the original poster really wants us to make up his mind for 
him should send their advice to him as messages.  Otherwise we're going to 
sit here debating which branch of Unix is better, which machine has more 
applications, who has the snazziest displays, which machine "feels" 
faster, and probably a million other debates that we've all seen before, 
and *then* we'll debate which of the other debates are the most important 
debates to win.

For me, today I find the Mac a better choice.  Some other day I may find 
the NeXT a better machine.  If I do, I'll pick it without some silly 
pretense of hand-wringing in a Usenet newsgroup.  If it's better for me, 
I won't *care* what anyone else thinks anyway.

I can see asking a specific question, like "I need to print newslettters,
can I do that on a NeXT?".  I can't see an open debate on "Please hold me
back from buying this machine that I'm drawn to".

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA