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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Looking for TRUE NeXT cost comparison
Keywords: NeXT - Mac II price comparison
Message-ID: <123@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 18:19:21 GMT
References: <17498@gatech.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <17498@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
	
>Lets talk printers:
>
>	NeXT Postscript laser printer:		$2000
>	Apple PS laser printer (approx):	$7000
>	Cheapest PS printer that I have seen:	$3500

Just curious: do you know for a fact that NeXT's $2000 printer is a
PostScript printer?  For that price, I bet it isn't.  I bet it's more
like the LaserWriter IISC, that is, a printer that eats bitmaps which
are drawn by the CPU using whatever imaging package it has -- QuickDraw
in the Mac, PostScript in the NeXT.  I don't know offhand what the
LaserWriter IISC's educational discount price is, but I'm pretty sure
it less than $2000.  Of course it has the disadvantage of not using
scalable fonts.

And your price for the Apple PS laser printer is way off.  You're thinking
about the top-of-the-line LaserWriter IINTX, at retail list.  Check the
educational discount price for the LaserWriter IINT. 

>I almost bought a Mac II A/UX machine.  I like the Mac II.  I have the $6000+
>to buy it.  I'm buying a NeXT machine.

But WHEN??

David Casseres