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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 13 Nov 90 04:30:45 GMT
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In article <108620@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In article <1990Nov10.022306.6551@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
>>It may not be clear from my quote, but the Mac we were discussing was a 
>>Mac IIfx.  I was arguing that a Mac IIfx gussied up to the tune of $12,000
>>was not as good a deal as a NeXTstation for $5000.
>
>But... read this very carefully, please... I don't know a single person
>who believes that the Mac IIfx is a good deal.  Comparing one overpriced
>machine to another does not prove that the first machine is not overpriced.
>You are starting to sound like a developer who is desperately afraid that
>there won't be enough NeXT users around to buy his program when he gets
>it done.  I don't blame you.  I like the NeXT hardware and would like to
>see it succeed, but realistically that isn't goign to happen unless NeXT
>lowers the price to get it into the hands of more users.
>
	I strongly disagree that the NeXT is overpriced. A 25MHz
68040, DSP, 100MB HD, 8MB RAM, Lotus and Mathematica along with a
megapixel monitor for $3,200 educational doesn't sound overpriced
to me!	
	The problem you mention of no user base can't be solved
by lowering prices: NeXT isn't making any money as it is! They
would need to make a low-end NeXT model which they probably
couldn't do and still call it a NeXT, and besides I can't see
Steven Jobs lowering himself like that. 8)

	-- Ethan

	If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he
has inflicted upon men, He would kill himself.
	-- Alexandre Dumas

	Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one
of man's blunders?
	-- Nietzsche

	They're JOKES! Lighten up! 8) Flames will be ignored.