Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!mit-eddie!apollo!rehrauer From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: $1000 68040-NeXT (was Re: NEXT and the 68040?) Message-ID: <4931d007.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: 14 Mar 90 20:20:00 GMT References: <7910@tank.uchicago.edu> <8255@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <11036@june.cs.washington.edu> <1990Mar10.033031.6151@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <1990Mar11.024125.7409@cs.umn.edu> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Distribution: usa Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 21 >In article <1990Mar11.024125.7409@cs.umn.edu> rantapaa@cs.umn.edu > (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes: >>I heard from a reliable source that NeXT is planning to come out with a >>68040 version of the cube for around a thousand bucks. > >Sorry, I don't buy that one. An *upgrade* for existing machines, >sure, but a whole new cube? Naaah. No, seriously, I heard they have a new mask process that lets them etch the entire cube -- monitor, case, keyboard, OD and software -- out of a solid block of silicon. Total cost to them is $1.59 / cube, but they're greedy bastards so they markup the price by $998.41. I also hear that they've cut a deal with Pelonis to jointly develop a 68050-based cube with 800 Megs of RAM, that doubles as a space-heater and/or toaster-oven. Sheee, some people. (If I incorrectly read smileys into the original posting, my pardon. It deserved 50-foot-tall electric Martian smileys, though.) -- >>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P.