Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!azwrkshp
From: azwrkshp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Karl Rueb)
Subject: Re: TT's and NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.165243.8709@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Dec3.200650.25435@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Dec4.123906.8082@cbnewsh.att.com> <4169.275eb314@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 16:52:43 GMT
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In article <4169.275eb314@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <1990Dec4.123906.8082@cbnewsh.att.com>, wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf) writes:

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>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

 Every body how talks about the Next being so CHEAP (I mean cheap, not inexpensive)
are forgetting that the Stations cannot be ungraded to colour,
Software is outrageously expensive (>$500 for the cheapest),
The 360 meg hard disk increases the cost by $1500 CANADIAN,
etc....

Not to mention that  the NeXT system is slow.  Its the old Apple system
problem plus Postscript display slowdown.  Just talk a look at their
flight simulator.

Sorry,  I just had to say that.

Karl Rueb
University of Waterloo   Grad. student
Systems Design Engineering
Canada

azwrkshp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca