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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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In a previous post, I compared <$5000 NeXT to a >12,000 Mac.  I forgot to 
mention that the NeXT comes with the 040.  The Mac IIfx in question has an
030.  

So, if you had $5000, would you buy less than half of a Mac IIfx or a
NeXT with twice the power and a lot of other things going for it?  
If you had $12,000, you could buy a NeXTDimension (at educational prices)
with color (taken care of by an i860 chip rated at 80 MFLOPS!) and the
ability to do video with realtime video compression (another special chip
is dedicated to this task).   Now, would you want that $12,000 Mac IIfx?