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: <1991Apr6.201135.5867@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 6 Apr 91 20:11:35 GMT References: <7-aGv&kf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.112104.6657@infonode.ingr.com> <1991Apr5.122106.9034@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 22 In article <1991Apr5.122106.9034@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >> But for a lot of the users do, the NeXT is better. DTP, >> spreadsheets, etc, and it has more horsepower in the 68040 to do these >> things. > > Yeh, but for those users the Macintrash is nearly as good, and it's a lot > cheaper (especially since Apple just cut the prices from absolutely outrageous > to merely scandalous). And as a UNIX Workstation the NeXT has competition from > RISC machines (of course the same is true of the A3000UX, but you don't need > to run UNIX on your A3000). > -- > Peter da Silva. `-_-' > . Hmm. Even the leading Mac-magazines "MacWorld" and "Mac User" have recently admitted in their articles than NeXT has much more competitive pricing than Apple... I guess you know better. Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland BTW, do you know many people who like to do DTP with a Mac Classic?