Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!gitpyr!isbell
From: isbell@pyr.gatech.EDU ( Charles L. Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Home users
Keywords: home personal
Message-ID: <7433@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 89 21:32:00 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 17

Okay, my problem is this simple:  One day soon, I will be buying a new computer.Perhaps a NeXT, perhaps a Mac II, perhaps something else.  However, I will begin
my PhD work in some area of AI and I think I'm going to want something with a 
lot of power.  The NeXT appears to fit the bill rather nicely.  Still, I will
also want my new SuperAwesomeMachine to easily and friendly-ily handle those
mundane word processing and databasing and spreadsheeting tasks that I'll still
want to do.  (What I mean is, I'm posting from a VAX-11 now, which is okay for
the little bit of programming I'm doing this quarter, but I wouldn't word
crunch on it if my life or grade depended on it.)

Now, I have played with a NeXT a little, and I know that appropriate software
will handle all my needs, esoteric or mundane, but what I want to know is:
WILL THE NeXT BE BETTER THAN SAY A COMPARABLY PRICED SUN OR MAC II OR XYZ-9.2
FOR AN UP AND COMING POWER USER WHO WANTS THE POWER OF A WORKSTATION, BUT
SOMETIMES JUST WANTS A USER FRIENDLY LITTLE WORD PROCESSOR?

I ask you because it seems that you know more about it than I.
Thank you for your thoughts in advance.