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- From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
- Subject: Re: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.200419.16477@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <01050133.krgeil@distant.uucp> <wallich.724643856@pepper>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:04:19 GMT
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- In article <wallich.724643856@pepper> wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich) writes:
- >edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys) writes:
- >
- >At least the prices aren't up their with the NeXT box (yet)...
-
- Actually, it is pretty damn close. Plus you get a hell of a lot more
- with the NeXT. And the development environment pretty much kicks butt
- on MPW.
-
- Used prices for mono NeXTstations (25 MHz 68040) w/ 8MB RAM and 105 MB
- HD with the 17" 4-bit megapixel monitor are averaging about $2700.
- This comes with a better development environment than you can currently buy
- for the macintosh.
-
- That's a much better deal than a quadra (even a used one).
-
- New prices run a little higher than a quadra w/ monitor.
-
- (as a side note, Sun is offering SPARC classics now for $4000 new [but
- you have to buy 12 ;-) ] or I believe around $8000 new. It wouldn't
- be too hard to dump $8-10k into a Quadra system and it would be very
- S L O W compared to the SPARC. Plus there's better compilers
- available etc...)
-
- Of course I can't afford any of these so this is all just machine-envy
- :)
-
- -Howard
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