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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 5 Apr 91 15:11:19 GMT
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> I think NeXT is a really good deal if you can get it for educational
> discount.  I was just browsing at the campus computer store and saw
> the NeXT and its software catalog.  There are many good programs
> available for NeXT - ex: three good spreadsheets as compared to none on the
> Amiga.  I saw several desktop publishing type programs and also some
> structured drawing programs.  They have several authoring softwares also.
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I saw the NeXTStation and was very impressed; however, the price for the
low-end model ($3500) is nowhere as attractive when you realize that it
comes with a comparatively miniscule 105 MB hard drive, which gives you
about 30 megs free. Of course, you could delete stuff...
        The reasonable NeXTStation with the enhanced OS and a 400 MB hard
drive is (I think) $5500. $2000 is a LOT to pay for a bigger hard drive.
They both come with a full 8 megs RAM, and the $1700 laser printer is a
honey at 400 dpi, and it prints as fast as a Xerox machine. But as my local
system administrator says, "I'll be interested in the NeXT when there are at
least three different programs for each application--not before."
        He has a good point. Here at Connecticut College, a rather pricey
school, Mac Classics are selling very well. LCs aren't moving at all, and I
strongly doubt that there are very many students who are willing to cough up
the bucks to buy a machine like the NeXT, as nice as it is, unless the
student is just made of money and needs to have the hottest machine in
his/her dorm.
                                                ---Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
                                ~~~---second-hand smoke is THEFT---~~~