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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
Message-ID: <965@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 16:43:44 GMT
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In article <22081@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>> The point he was trying to make was. To bring the Amiga up to an 040
>>it will cost about $1000. To bring the NeXT up to Color, it costs $5000.
>
>Nope.  You can get a NeXTStation Color for about $2000 more, bringing your
>total purchase to about $5500 (educational and developer pricing).  For this
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	There is one thing about this thread that has bothered me all along;
	Why does everyone qoute educational/developers prices when they
	compare MAC/NEXT/AMIGA??????? Do you people out there really think
	every one on this net is a student/faculty/developer? Try  comparing
	retail or "street" prices when you compare these machines. The
	business community will be paying these prices and that is where
	the sales for all are centered (I hope).

	I myself am a developer but the company I work for definitly is not.
	What price do I take to my manager? some artifically reduced
	educational price ? We all tend to forget the big picture in our
	fever over our favorite machine.

	Monty Saine