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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: MacIIci vs. NeXT station?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 03:39:29 GMT
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In article <6029@pbhyb.PacBell.COM> rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) writes:

   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.

Actually, a video system for the NeXT will probably cost you around $13,000 too.

Hope these are right.  I know the education prices because... *.edu
  
NeXT Cube      $7000  -- 105MB drive, 2.88MB floppy, DSP, *9 channels of DMA*
Color monitor  $2000  -- 16", million pixel color monitors are expensive!
NeXT Dimension $4000  --

Add a 1 gig. drive + an extra 8MB for your Cube. Now the price is up
to almost $16K.

The performance on the NeXT Dimension(i860) + 68040 NeXT is probably
better than most Mac systems.  However, JPEG isn't working on the NeXT
yet, so that might cause some problems for some people.

BTW, IBM just dropped their 286 Model 30 System.  It looks like
they're gearing up for OS/2 2.0.  They're now an all >=386SX company.

-Mike