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From: yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
Message-ID: <21993@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 6 Dec 90 08:26:07 GMT
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To Thom Cleland:
  The Amiga newsgroup is indeed full of well-informed and intelligent 
posters.  However, your postings re the NeXT have not been well-informed.
  The 105 MB hard drive for the NeXT does indeed come with nearly 40 MB of
bundled software (not including the operating system).  The 340 MB hard disk
does indeed come with nearly 200 MB of bundled software.  True, Mathematic
is not free to every NeXT buyer, but it IS free to all educational buyers,
and I assume you and most of Usenet would be among these (of course, there
are some who are not).  
  The 040 NeXTs shipped last week (see a previous article on mine for details).
  The 030 Amigas are more expensive than the 040 NeXTstations.  Do you 
really expect to get an 040 upgrade and money back from Commodore??  This is
what it would take to make your 040 Amiga the same low price as the 040
NeXTStation.  
  The real issue is price/performance.  There are many machines much faster
than the NeXT or Amiga.  But the NeXT beats nearly all of them in terms of
price/performance.  The Amiga is a valiant challenger to NeXT.  But it still
has a ways to go if it wants to match NeXT's price/performance.  
  As for matching NeXT's price/features, the Amiga has a very long way to 
go.  Where's that Amiga DSP?  Those Amiga DMA channels?  That Amiga Mach with
parallel processing capabilities?  That 2.88 MB floppy drive compatible with
both 720K and 1.44 MB MS-DOS formats?