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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: alt.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <1115@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 14:20:22 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3580@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <3580@cs.utexas.edu> dvorak@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Dvorak) writes:
 
>... technical features, but the Wall Street Journal article gives
>an interesting price comparison to competitors' products, when
>comparably equipped.  All the machines shown below have 8 MB
>main memory and a large disk:
>
>                       price   proc.   disk   monitor  operating sys.
>                      -------  -----  ------  -------  --------------
>NeXT Computer System   $6,500  68030  256 MB  17-inch  MACH  
>Sun 386l/150          $16,990  80386  327 MB  15-inch  UNIX,MS-DOS
>Apple Macintosh IIx   $13,862  68030  192 MB  19-inch  Apple *
>Compaq 386 Model 300  $19,751  80386  300 MB  12-inch  (extra **)
 
>*  Apple's A/UX UNIX is an additional $2,600.
>** Compaq's UNIX is an additional $695.

Ahh, but you aren't really comparing the same prices, I think.  The NeXT price
is restricted to educational institutions, and the other prices (at least
Apple's) is the cost to the general public.  I would think that the Apple
prices via the educational consortium are considerably lower and therefore
appear somewhat more reasonable when compared to the NeXT system.

Please do not take this as an endorsement of Apple's price gouging.  I don't
have the consortium prices, but I bet the NeXT machines still look like a good
value when compared to Apple's educational prices.  I hope this wakes Apple up
and gets them moving to produce a machine with a good deal more power at a
competitive price point.

Jim

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