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From: jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Patrick Vance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT's and NeXT
Message-ID: <276A8A68.1681@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 20:41:11 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.144119.25552@wam.umd.edu> charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) writes:
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>IF you can get the discount, and IF you have the money, the NeXT
>is worth looking at, but I don't think most STer will be going
>this way--too bad, they are a good group.  

   Seems to me that the issue of getting a NeXT is more than just
finding out that the NeXT is a great computer and that with a discount
it probably costs about the same as a TT.
   My questions would be: How much does the cheapest color Next cost?
How much is NeXT software?  What about entertainment software for
those times that you just gotta shoot something (most of it is
probably PD)?  Do I have to buy the NeXT laser printer or could I use
a third party printer (Even at that discount price, not everyone has
the money for a laser)?  Can I be productive on the NeXT the same way
that I was on the ST without too much costly software and/or hardware
add-ons (productivity spans Music, Business, Desktop Publishing, etc)?
   Many ST users in general like their ST because of the wide variety
of things that can be done on it without too much expense.  And if I
need color, it's just a monitor away (okay, so the color isn't 24 or
32 bit).  Also, if I got a NeXT (or an Amiga 3000UX or a Mac IIsi) I
would lose my software.  Granted, it's the price one pays for a
'better' system, but I can't afford that price, even if I can afford
the new system.
   This isn't to say that a NeXT (or whatever) isn't interesting, but
a TT looks awfuly good if the overall cost to me ends up being less
for upgrading to a new system.
   I'd really like to hear from people who switched systems and how
expensive (or inexpensive) it was, Atari management issues and such
aside.  (But that doesn't belong on this board, so mail me).

-- 
Joachim Vance
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