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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Questions on NeXT machine
Keywords: NeXT
Message-ID: <668@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 00:29:43 GMT
References: <17780@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>     -	Pricing.  The $6500 price is only available to "selected universities",
>	so it should be viewed as comparable to the discounts offered by 
>	IBM, Apple, DEC, etc. to such schools.  This leads us to expect a
>	commercial price around $10,000 to $12,000.

At the press conference after the announcement, Jobs was asked what the
commercial price was to be.  He said that there wasn't one.  The machine
is to be sold to Universities only.  Not even to high schools.

Further, when asked about European licensing, Jobs is reported to have
said "We'll talk about it, but I don't think so."

It was asked if the printer accepts A2 or A4 size paper.  No.  It
is 8.5x11 inch *only* for cost reasons.  In the announcement, Jobs
compared the NeXT 400dpi printer to the "$7000 printer on the market,"
and indicated that his would be much less expensive.  Well it is, at
$2000.  Sort of.  The Apple LaserWriter is a network print server that
can be shared among several computers.  The NxXT printer is a print
engine only.  The computer process the PostScript and sends pixels
to the printer.  So a NeXT network print server is more like $8500.

-- 
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