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From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Keywords: NeXT, color
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Date: 4 Nov 90 16:13:51 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.124453.3882@cs.uoregon.edu> mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So) writes:
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>Well, so far I agreed that the NeXT is a better buy than the Mac [...]
>
>	However, there may be at least one reason for buying a Mac instead of
>a NeXT, that is color (please correct me if I am wrong).  If you are want
>color, then you should buy a Mac, not a NeXT, because, as far as I know, the
>NeXT does not support color on ay of its models.  I don't know about the '040
>NeXT, but I assume that it won't have color either, since I never heard that
>NeXT has any plan on introducing color machine.
>
>	Once again, if I have said anything wrong, please correct me, thanks !
>
>Ming

The new 68040 NeXTs do indeed have color as an option.  Quite nice color,
actually, though expandability isn't as good as it could be, and you have
to pay for it.

For $1750 more than the basic NeXTStation (UCLA educational prices), you
can get a color NeXTStation with a 16 inch monitor having 16 bits/pixel color
and 1120 x 832 resolution.  Unfortunately, you have to decide whether you
want color right away, since the basic B/W NeXTStation is not expandable.

There is also a color board and monitor for the more expensive and
expandable NeXTCube, meant mainly for high-end publishing, graphics, etc.
It's a $5150 (educational price again) 32 bit/pixel (on screen) 16 inch
display with a blindingly fast Intel i860 RISC graphics coproccessor
that lets you compress and play back full-motion video.

So, in short, the new NeXTs do have pretty nice color, but the entry
cost for it is higher than the entry cost for (lower quality) color
on the Mac.  And, of course, you can also get high-quality color on
the Mac, and the Macs currently have more applications explicitly dealing
with color.

- Trent Lange

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