Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!rex!ames!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!alan From: alan@wam.umd.edu (Alan J. Schunemann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New HP machines Bad News for NeXT?? Message-ID: <1991May21.110030.8082@wam.umd.edu> Date: 21 May 91 11:00:30 GMT References: <1991May20.143857.1071@hulaw1.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: wor In article hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >HP-s (or are they the 9000/400 series at a lower price?) are indeed >available at a price comparable to the NeXTStation, this will force >NeXT to become a little better attuned to its users. There is, of Comparable? I checked out the HP 400 series of machines BEFORE I , a student, bought my NeXTstation. The price of of an HP 400 when I was looking was beyond 10k. And they were still running an '030 50MHz with an "upgrade" option to the '040 pegged at $2000. Let's see...2000/5000 (retail not edu). Just for the upgrade? Any beyond all this "NeXT v. Other workstation" stuff it is critical that you actually go through the buying process before you can really appreciate an NeXT.Call up HP and try to order a workstation (ONE?) was the question I got. Then investigate the "base" price...this is the kicker. It's a box and monitor. That's it! You buy the OS, the OUTRAGEOUSLY priced HDs, etc, etc! A sun at edu (40% off) was apprx $9000. Oh, and BTW, the Sun's OS, at that time, only came on tape. So, "buy a tape drive". The NeXT is the BEST computer for the money...bar none! Next time you look at a price, look at what your getting. BTW- I bought a NeXTstation for ~$3200 (w/ 100meg another ~$1000 for 200meg), half the price of the Sparcstation. Never mind the interface war, I run X on my NeXT and it works like a dream....and I can switch to NeXTStep, try that on a Sparcstation or HP. >Greetings, >Hardy Later Alan -- _________________________________________________________________ Alan Schunemann "Well, what shall we throw away this year?" alan@wam.umd.edu -Andrew Carnegie