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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HEY, YOU!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.163848.5477@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:38:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.015709.21377@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
> In article <0bp3ksq00WAu4HgVQy@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathryn Aileen Coonrod) writes:
>
>>... The TT is a GREAT machine, with good software, and really
>>great potential, for $1,000 less! If NeXT can market a very similar
>>machine, for $4995, Why can't Atari, an established complany, make some
>>of these things into option, and cut this by half?
>
> University bookstores can sell the NeXT PizzaBox '040 to full-time students
> and staff for $3100.  But I still think Atari should be able to compete.
>

Well, Atari might have some hard time beating the aggressive pricing of
the new NeXTs. (As would just about any other company.) They would also
have to develop the machine from scratch if they wanted to make
something "revolutionary". In my opinion, the TT is basically just a speeded
up ST with better graphics. I hoped it would be something more when it
came out, but since I noticed the new NeXT models and their pricing, I
decided not to stick with the Atari label even if I had had a ST for 5
years. ST is still the most economical MIDI machine, though.

				Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland