Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!john
From: john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <414@trigraph.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 13:59:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: trigraph.414
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3580@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
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In article <3580@cs.utexas.edu> dvorak@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Dvorak) writes:
>                ... 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.

This is not a fair comparison.  $6,500 is the proposed educational
discount price for the NeXT, whereas the other prices appear to be
list prices.

Since both Sun and Apple offer substantial discounts to educational 
institutions, I'd be interested to see a comparison of these 
discounted prices -- the NeXT would still probably come out ahead,
but not by very much.

John Chew
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