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- From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: NS 486: Begin the Quest
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.210733.107936@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:07:33 GMT
- Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
- Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
- Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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- As the release of NS 486 has begun approach (hopefully NeXTEXPO '93) I
- have started to look through the rags to see what my developers system
- will cost. I like to sugest that we start a thread and as we see good
- prices on NS compatable hard ware we post them and keep a running list
- of the best prices.
-
- My idea of an entry Developers System is as follows:
- 33Mhz. 486DX
- 16 MB RAM
- 500 MB HD
- accelerated localbus video (I dont know how much VRAM is needed
- to achieve 16 bit color)
- 17" color display
-
- I planned to list retailers but I forgot to bring the info so i'll post
- that later. In the current issue of PC WORLD they review a 17" color
- monitor by Acer (I'll have to check on that name) that they compared to a
- NEC 5FG and had a street price of $999. 500MB Hard Drives seem to be
- about $1000. I've seen 4MB 70ns simms recently for $116 which means $464
- for 16MB. I haven't checked motherboaards as recently but in Dec. I saw
- 33Mhz. 486DX VL-BUS boards for ~$1000 (w/o video). I have no idea what an
- accelerated Local Bus video card goes for.
-
- My personal goal is $3000 for the hardware. I know there are alot of
- other things that can go in a system but I fealt that this system would
- get you developing and you wouldn't have to throw out things when you got
- the rest later (i.e. move from 15"-17" display = throw away a 15" display)
-
- Now as long as NeXT doesn't price us all out of development (esp.
- students) we could be in business.
-
- Please post your best prices!!!
-
- --
- -Mont
-
- NeXTmail OK :-)
- President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
- mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
-