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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.005516.8300@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 24 Jan 91 00:55:16 GMT
References: <0bb_V1O00Uh_E3=Bow@andrew.cmu.edu> <42973@ut-emx.uucp> <5$7Glmf4@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast)
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As quoted from <5$7Glmf4@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
+---------------
| Your attitude is completely ignorant.  "No, I won't buy a Mac, until
| it runs ALL of my Apple II software."  Your requirements for
| purchasing a NeXT are quite rigid.  What Mac do you own?  How
+---------------

You then believe that being able to access one's current data --- not to
mention doing so without having to learn a new program --- is a worthless
ability?  Gee, thanks.  I wonder how many NeXTs would be sold if Steve Jobs
had that attitude?

+---------------
| important is color to your work?  The grey-scale Mac is a far cry from
| a 9", 72 dpi SE screen.  Can anyone give me the cost of an SE/30 18
+---------------

How inportant is color to me?  NOT AT ALL.  (Need I make that clearer?)  I'm
not even sure that I need grayscale.

Sorry, but there are those of us who have SEs and are scraping to find the
money to upgrade to SE/30s.  If you can't show us a NeXT that does at least as
much as the SE/30 for under $1500, you're wasting your time.  And yes, this is
a "rigid" requirement, and shouting at us about our "rigid" requirements won't
make an expensive new machine cheaper than an upgrade.

Mac prices have always been a sore point with me.  But *this* kind of callous
attitude about "rigid" requirements because we have to do stupid things like
being able to access our existing data, or be able to *afford* things, is
guaranteed to make me blow a gasket.

++Brandon
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