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From: knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 14 Nov 90 05:24:46 GMT
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I wrote:
>>So why buy a Mac IIsi, Mac II, Mac IIci, Mac SE/30 et al, since you
>>could buy a NeXT for about the same price or MUCH cheaper in some
>>cases

jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (Quaestor) writes:
>    BUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZ!!!  Thank you for playing
>  I think you should come down from your NeXT superiority complex with
>the facts 
>  WE ALL KNOW that one (at a Univ) can acquire a IIsi for $3000 and a
>SE/30 for $2500

Excuse me.  Buy a NeXT from your very own school.  It'll cost you $2995.  Yes,
the U. of Arizona is selling the NeXTstation for $2995.  I would say that
this is "about the same price" as a Mac IIsi and the $2500 SE/30.  As
for hardware, performance, and features, the NeXT blows both machines
away.