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From: bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: MAC to NeXT changeover
Message-ID: <4bF_Kde00WBMA3iXZL@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 02:51:21 GMT
Organization: Class of '90, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hi there ... I'm considering a move from a Macintosh to a NeXTstation.

One of the things that I noticed was that the price difference between
the 104MB hard drive model with 8 MB of RAM and a 340 MB HD + 16 MB of
RAM is something like $2000.  It seems as though I could save myself a
few hundred dollars by buying the base configuration and then beefing
it up with third-party supplies, winding up with more hard disk space
in the process.

Since I am only considering a move, what are the pros and cons of such
an approach ... is there a third party supplier network for the NeXT as
for the Mac, or is Steve Job's Co. the only source for such things?

Thanks in advance,

Brad