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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT's and NeXT
Message-ID: <4169.275eb314@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 6 Dec 90 21:07:32 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.200650.25435@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Dec4.123906.8082@cbnewsh.att.com>
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In article <1990Dec4.123906.8082@cbnewsh.att.com>, wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf) writes:
> From article <1990Dec3.200650.25435@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, by cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz):
>> 
>> 
>> Realy???  How much?
>> 
>> Just to piss glh off...I saw a demo of the new NextStation today.  Someone
>> earlier mentioned that the windowing system was very slow.  That doesn't
>> seem to be a problem.  Seems that when you throw a 25mhz 68040 at the GUI,
>> it seems fine.  I didn't notice any slowness.  However, the machine wasn't
>> running THAT many tasks at the time either.  The educational pricing makes
>> the thing so cheap that you could throw in the NeXt 400dpi laser printer
>> too and have a very nice unix system with scads of included software at ~$4500.
>> 
> Just to continue this non-ST discussion....
> Please explain your $4500 price.  Someone posted the NextStation educational
> prices a couple days ago.  I believe a usable system came in around $5000
> for mono and $6500 for color - and that is without the 400 dpi printer you
> mention.
> 

Well, you can get a NeXTStation with:
Megapixel 4-grayshade monitor, 17 inch, about 1200x850 pixels
8MB RAM, 105MB HD, 68040, DSP, ethernet, SCSI II, etc. etc.
Lots of good software.

For about $3200 educational in most universities in the U.S.

An additional HD is recommended, though.

If TT's educ. price would be about $3000 (highly possible), I could see
no reason to get one over the NeXTStation (I wouldn't get Amiga3000UX either).
So that's why I will get a NeXTStation. I now have an ST and I have had
it for about 5 years... But I don't have to stick with Atari anymore.

					Jouni