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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT peripheral pricing
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Date: 28 Jun 91 12:50:33 GMT
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Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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bchin@umd5.umd.edu (Bill Chin) writes:


>I'll be purchasing a NeXTstation soon, and while flipping through
>the price list, I'm amazed at how much NeXT peripherals cost.

>The 16mb memory expansion (4-4mb SIMMS) is around $2500!!
>That's more than $600 a SIMM!  IBM doesn't even charge that much.
[..]
>Disk drive prices are better, but not much better.  They at least
>beat IBM's and Apple's pricing.  However, they are more than
>150% of most mail-order places.  
Oh, you're lucky then. Here in Germany things are even worse... ;-}

>How does NeXT expect us students to purchase *usable* system or
>have developer's flock to their systems without resorting to
>third party components that may void all or part of the machine's
>warranty?  These two components seem to stick out like sore thumbs
Funny you ask. I asked this one NeXT themselves in a (very friendly)
letter - guess what? - No response yet.

But maybe look at it this way. NeXT wants to earn money. That's ok. And
here in Germany it looks like it, as if they want to get even more money
here... ;-} Very strange is how they treat students. (though we had this
discussion already...) Not at all is the answer. Students get 5% off
(great isn't it...) - But if you have a company and call the NeXT
dealer, he'd give you _instantly_ 10% or more. For one single machine.
(This is NO bull, we tested it out, just for fun...) - But of course the
dealer tried to get us buy a 'big' machine...

So to get not toooooo depressed think about the following: A student or
developer has the time (and maybe the know-how) to attach 3rd party
products to a slab or cube. A company probably wouldn't do that. They
might want to "plug'n'play". So we're much better off, aren't we???

		just my impression, Gerhard.
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