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- From: moksha!mgb (Michael Branton)
- Subject: Re: major purchase decision?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.165823.2334@moksha.uucp>
- Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
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- Organization: Totally Disorganized
- References: <1992Sep3.145921.10696@pencom.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:58:23 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Sep3.145921.10696@pencom.com> alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Sep2.201542.8576@atinc.uucp> root@atinc.uucp (Operator)
- writes:
- > >
- > > I'm trying to decide whether to plunge into my "Next" decision.
- .
- .
- .
- > > I'm looking at this configuration:
- > >
- > > NextStation - Color, 25mhz/040, 16Meg ram, 250Meg drive, Rel. 3.0.
- > >
- > > Will I be happy with this performance? Any input to my concerns on
- > configuration
- > > and performance would be appreciated.
- .
- .
- .
- > I tried to e-mail you but that bounced, so....
- >
- > First off, let me warn you that I work for Pencom, which produces co-Xist, so
- I
- > may be a little biased :). Anyway, with 16MB for a color system, you're
- going
- > to spend a lot of time waiting, especially if you're going to be doing
- > running/developing X stuff. 3.0 seems to page more than 2.1 ever did, so
- this
- > may be another incentive to buy more memory. Finally, keep in mind that the
- X
- > distribution (ours or Cub'X) is around 55MB, so make sure that you have
- plenty
- > of disk space.
- >
- > Hope this helps....
- >
- >
-
- I'll second that. You'll want more memory and more drive, but don't buy them
- from NeXT. There are a number of 3rd party suppliers who will give you a much
- better price than NeXT (this is typical of the situation with all workstation
- vendors, not just NeXT.)
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- -Michael
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