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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.004135.19072@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 00:33:50 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.002046.17847@agate.berkeley.edu>, knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes...
 
>vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes;
>>We talk about how slow the old NeXTs were because that's the only
>>thing many of us have to go by.
> 
>But why should it matter now?  You know the new machines are very fast.  You
>know they are faster than any Mac likely to be on the market in the next
>six months.

Six months, huh?  Quite impressive indeed.

[...]
>>I'd like to see the first Mac 040 accelerators, and compare *them* to the
>>NeXT
> 
>At what price?  You'd need a Mac IIfx with an 040, 8 MB RAM, and 105 MB hard
>disk, all at a price of $5000 retail to approach the price/performance ratio
>for a NeXT.


Complete BS!  First of all, a IIfx '040 would be more comparable to a cube,
given expansion options, etc.  So let's start from a base of $8000.  Second, 8
MB on the Mac != 8 MB on the Next; that is, the Next NEEDS more memory to run
it's OS, etc.  How much does a Next need to boot?  A Mac will only need 2MB
with System 7.0.  Second, a 105 MB on a Next is more or less equivalent to a
30MB HD on a Mac, given the size of the required OS files on the Next. 

Second, a 25MHz '040 Mac would run rings around a Next in terms of "speed", the
same way the IIci runs rings around the '030 cube.  Why?  All the overhead the
Next has to do: Display Postscript, etc.

> 
>There will be faster Macs, which will be followed by even faster NeXTs, and 
>so on.  But until Apple starts pricing its high-end Macs much better, the
>NeXT will certainly be the better buy.

I agree with you there, at least bang-for-the-buck-wise.


Robert

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