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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Looking for a TRUE NeXT comparison
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Date: 21 Oct 88 11:24:38 GMT
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In article <662@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>What I would like to see here on the net is an OBJECTIVE (ha!) attempt at
>doing this.  Lets get a price on a TRUELY comperably priced system. 
>By comperably, what I mean is that all features on NeXT must be present
>on the priced unit.
Not really useful, if even possible.  If I were to consider a new machine,
I'd plan on buying the features I needed now, live with the limitations, and
buy the others (large capacity storage (Hard or optical disk),DSP, A/D, Color)
later on.  A Mac ][  can be expanded to have similar hardware options, but you
end up pushing against slot limits.  NeXt is more tempting, but I had that much
cash lying about all at once I'd buy a small car outright, rather than making 
payments on it.

I was really thinking about getting a Mac ][ CPU w/1M for $2221 before
Oct 7, when the Apple price increase supposedly took effect.  I could always 
leave it in the box for a year, then re-sell it if I decided not to use it 
because of the rumored $3K NeXt just around the corner.  I decided to just 
wait, so now I guess I'll wait a little longer to see what the competition 
does.

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