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From: carl@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The *Real* reason I can't buy a NeXT
Message-ID: <1348@doctor.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 11:20:53 GMT
References: <534@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1990Nov18.101641.7459@world.std.com>
Reply-To: carl@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas)
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In article <1990Nov18.101641.7459@world.std.com> boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin) writes:
>jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) writes:
>
>>  As the subject heading suggests, the *real* reason that I can't buy a
>>NeXT is not the price, nor my fear of new things (I'm no technophobe), but
>>the real reason I can't buy is a NeXT is because - that monitor is just to
>>darn big!!!!!
>
>This is preposterous: a NeXT is a lot more important than any other stuff you
>might have on your desk :) ...   [remember he used a smiley :)]
>
>If you could buy a Rolls for the price of an Accord, and the Rolls had better
>mileage, would you also refuse that opportunity because the Rolls was too
>large?

I can't resist... If I could buy a Rolls for the price of an accord, I might
still buy the accord.  Reason: I can get any gas station to fix problems on
the accord for $20-$40/hr, but I'll bet the Rolls' Dealers want close to $100
per hour for labor.  Maybe it doesn't need it quite so often, but if I have
it serviced regularly (needs it or not) it's going to be more expensive to
maintain than the Accord.

I have no idea on price/hr but I remember getting my '69 mustang worked on
for $20/hr and my neighbor with a BMW was paying $50/hr at the time.  I'm
not THAT rich (yet :-).

-Carl

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