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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Advice on what to buy..
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Date: 24 Jun 91 19:44:55 GMT
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chris@castlab.engr.wisc.edu (Christian Rohrmeier) writes:

>Hello all.

>I've recently been introduced to the NeXT, and I think its a wonderful
>machine. Now I am stuck with the choices whichj I must make when
>purchasing one.... I want 24bit color, but with a budget of about $8000
>that would limit be to a slab and a tiny hard drive. Some one suggested
>that to save money.. avoid a NeXT HD and buy a 3rd party SCSI for alot
>less... same thing for memory.

>Any words of davice???

>-- 
>Christian Rohrmeier
>chris@castlab.engr.wisc.edu
If you want true color (24Bit ONLY fr color) then the Colorstation does
not suite you fine. It is only capable of 4096 different colors. And it
should be, as it has no extra processor for doing those graphic shifts.
Even at the color station with 12MB Mem one remarks that it runs slower
that the slab, doing complicatet graphics...

I suggest to spend the $8000 as a whole on a 8/105 MB bw slab and 3rd
party RAM (get 16MB!), a HDD (I use a wren6), maybe a streamer (depends
on what you want to do with it, I would suggest to buy one) and maybe a
modem.

If you want true 24 Bit color, get a cube and a dimension board. But you
won't get that for 8000...
(On the other hand, it's still lots cheaper than a sun with the
graphic-card...)

		sorry for disappointing you, Gerhard.
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