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Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 11 Nov 88 18:22:55 GMT
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> David Carlson writes:
> 
> I have no reason to doubt that this machine for "academia" is just the 
> Apple I for NeXT.  Its the NeXT II+ that I'm waiting for:  the machine
> for the rest of us.

I have problems with the idea that a $7K machine a good student machine.
Sure, if you are spending $10K a year in tuition alone, perhaps
your parents can see footing the bill for a $7K computer; if you're going
to some public school in the not-northeast, this is more money that you
might expect to spend for all expenses for a year or two.

The success of the Mac, initially, was that it was [more or less]
self-contained, it was intuitive, and although we all bitch about
the Apple pricing scheme, it was marginally affordable for interested
students. I can't see that NeXT does this, yet.

There's no question that the machine is pretty nice, but at the current
price, it's more reasonable to hope for schools to buy LOTS of them and
make them available --- not that "students" will buy them.

Perhaps that NeXT II+ might change this, but I have yet to see the second
edition of any machine that didn't raise the price.

	Jeff Bowles