Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us? Message-ID: <9444@cup.portal.com> Date: 25 Sep 88 21:18:04 GMT References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 22 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3098 Somebody (No names, this is a generic flame :-) writes... |Hopefully, this will happen NeXT month... I hate to disappoint all of you who think NeXT will have the "computer for the rest of us", but you are all dreaming. Most of the press "rumors" suggest that it will be a 68030 with 4 mb of ram, a 1024x1024 screen running display postscript using a special processor, lots of disk space and Mach, a UNIX work-alike. A machine like this does not come cheap. If you want to know how much the Next machine will cost you, look at Sun's prices for their '030 box, look at the Mac IIx and look at any other '030 boxes. See any shipping for under $6K? Neither do I. I don't expect NeXT to break any price barriers either. The NeXT box will be another box for "the few of us who can afford it." Me, I'm sticking to the Mac world. My Mac II may be expensive, but at least it has lots of software for it. If there is anyone who still thinks the NeXT box will be "for the rest of us", I got a great deal on a this bridge... -- Jerry Whitnell jwhitnell@cup.portal.com ..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell