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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wither Video Toaster?
Summary: NeXT person to goof?...
Message-ID: <1370@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:20:59 GMT
References: <5380001@otter.hple.hp.com> <3769@homxc.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I was pretty surprised that the $6500 price for Jobs' NeXT computer
has been tossed around so much.  Given what the machine is supposed
to include, it seems rather bold to promise a price at this
juncture.  Last week, Business Week had a fairly long article about
Jobs' machine.  It seems like he's been rather fanatic about many
aspects of his toy.  For instance, the CPU cabinet is made of die
cast magnesium.  Apparently, at one point Jobs flew into a rage
becasue there were mold mark lines INSIDE the case, and ordered the
whole thing retooled to get rid of the marks.  Supoosedly,
according to the same article, 8 megabytes of RAM is also included
in the base system.

It would seem like all the technical goodies' cost combined with
having to amoritize off the costs of development mean that he is
going to have to live with a pretty thin per-unit margin.

Sorry if this is off the mark of being .tech.  It amazes me how
many companies forget the fact that in adition to providing the
world with a really neat gizmo, that they also have to feed
themselves, and perhaps make some money for their stockholders
too.

The video toaster looks neat enough, that I'd probably still buy
one, even if it cost twice the original estimate.  It would still
be a good value for the features it is supposed to have.

--Bill