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From: rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacIIci vs. NeXT station?
Message-ID: <6029@pbhyb.PacBell.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:45:15 GMT
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Reply-To: rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
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In article <28570CC5.528@ics.uci.edu> kanderso@ics.uci.edu (Ken Anderson) writes:
Wait a minute; a little touchy aren't we?

I think Darin was asking a valid question, not trying start a flame war, and
your response was more inflammatory than his question.

I too would like to know why I should drop $13,000 on a Mac IIci system to 
use as the center piece to my new video editing suite when I can do the same
things with an Amiga or Next-based system for about $5000-6000?  I'm
deliberately not including the cost of software, because I will be buying
new software for whichever system I buy.

What's really funny is hearing the salesperson at the local Mac store 
telling me I'd be better off with the Next for this application. I'm sure
his profit margin is probably as high or higher on the Mac than it is for the
Next.

Now, I too have no desire to hear a bunch of *****aholics condemning the Mac/
Amiga/Next for whatever narrow-minded reason they have.  I guess I'd simply
like to know why the Amiga and Next can be built and sold for so much less
when they use (basically) the same chip set (remember I said basically) and
are built in factories that use older, more expensive manufacturing techniques.

I've often said they will get my Mac away from me when they pry my dead, cold
fingers off the mouse, but, it's getting real hard to justify the cost versus
capabilities.  I used to be real good at convincing my wife that I needed a 
new whatever, but, it's real hard to convince myself that I need to spend
100+% more for a Mac than for some other machine (no matter what the name is).

I sure hope someone at Apple is reading this, because they are the only ones
who can respond or do something about it.

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