Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? Message-ID: <48814@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 11 May 91 06:14:58 GMT References: <2q4Gfxv*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May9.202323.5208@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May10.172410.6666@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 35 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991May10.172410.6666@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > > There's nothing wrong with it. It is simply that if you > think in three years anyone will actually PAY YOU 3 grand, you've > got a few screws loose. 8-) > >So, what do you think a $5000 computer that runs at 15 mips with a 17" >display will be worth in 3 years? That depends on how much support the machine has at the time. NeXT has to 1) survive three years in the business, 2) continue to support a 680x0 arhictecture and 3) sell about one million units. If all three conditions are satisfied the resale value could be close to $3000. Of course, the educated buyer probably knows how much you paid for the machine. In that case they will be reluctant to pay near what you paid for it three years before. Also, the same thing might happen to the 040 NeXT that happened to the 030 NeXT. Those could be purchased dirt cheap around the time the 040 machine was released. Do you think the resale value of the 030 NeXT is anywhere close to 60% of list now? Check into the resale values of many of the machines out there today. Simply getting the machine and setting it up basically knocks 10% of the sale price. Depreciation is incredibly high on electronics of all kinds, especially computers. Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic