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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT secrets
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Date: 18 Oct 88 18:00:17 GMT
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In article <15478@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> 128a-3aj@e260-3b.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman) writes:
>
>-> What's the catch? <- 
>After being used to Apple's prices, the $6500 for the machine, monitor,
>optical drive, keyboard, etc., sounds like a BARGAIN, especially with the
>inflated RAM prices.  (I realize this is not street price, but a sort of
>"consortium" price.  Even so...)  And how can he possibly sell a 400 DPI
>laser printer for $2000?  I hope there's no law against dumping laser printers
>below cost...

Easy.  A 400 DPI laser printer for $2000.  300 DPI printers can be had
for less than $2000.  The catch?  You can't buy a PostScript printer
for that cheap.  With the NeXT computer, you don't need one.  Display
PostScript has the postscript already done.  Imagine plugging in a
GCC printer into your Mac for $1700 and getting PostScript
with programs like CricketDraw, Illustrator, Freehand, etc.

Ken



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