Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!fernwood!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr6.193406.5864@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 6 Apr 91 19:34:06 GMT References: <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 31 In article , judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (rory toma) writes: >> >> 1) What's the $$$$$ of one ot those Puppies? >> >> Retail: $4995 for NeXTstation -- edu: around $3250 >> $7995 for NeXTstation color -- edu: around $5500 >> > Yes, but in order to get a usable NeXTStation, it's something like $4200 > with a 200megger, and about $5000 with a 400megger. The $3250 price is > for the 105meg model, which just doesn't have enough space for the OS and > all the applications. The full extended OS, which comes with the C > compiler and a bunch of other neatstuff won't fit into the cheap model. If you were clever, you would buy the smallest NeXTstation configuration and a big third-party hard disk. I got NeXTstation with about 800MEG hard disk space for less than $5000. But I admit, that if you want to program the NeXT, you need more than 105MB and it raises the price. > Oh, these are educational prices I'm talking about. I hear for about 3K, > one can get a SPARC IPC from SUN. Or one can geta 3000 and spend the > xtra 1K to get the '040 board... Hmm. I'd prefer a NeXT to either of those machines. BTW, you would need a big hard disk with the SPARC IPC, as well. > > rory Jouni Alkio