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- From: agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (Matthias Zepf)
- Subject: Re: Stability of Next as a company
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.221240.28570@amylnd.stgt.sub.org>
- Organization: Agnus' new home, Leonberg/Warmbronn, Germany
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:12:40 GMT
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- rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony) writes:
- : In article <HARDY.92Sep6231009@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
- : >With the current DM/OS/USD ratios NeXTs in Europe should be outright
- : >bargains. Something is wrong if prices don't fall together with the
- : >Dollar! (Isn't that the purpose of keeping the dollar low? ).
- : 2) If dollar goes up: the price goes up by the same ratio
- : If dollar goes down: nothing happens except occasional special
- : offers.
-
- (Sorry for my bad English.) You are absolutly right.
-
- All the others, please do not forget:
-
- A simple NeXTstation (Mono, 25 MHz) still costs about
- 12,312.- DM (German Marks). At the current USD rate
- (1 USD = 1.4 DM) this is about 8,800.- USD!!! The US
- street price is 3,996.- USD. (German NeXT dealers
- offer 5% edu discount.)
-
- NeXT did not change the prices in any way due to the
- fallen USD rate. By the way ... the new upcoming Amiga
- 4000 (with 68040@25Mhz, "AA Chip Set" with 256 and more
- colors, four meg RAM, 50 meg hd) will cost about 4,000.-
- DM here in Germany. This is not a direct comparable
- system, but due to that price, the low-end NeXT should
- be sold at 6,000.- or max. 7,000.- DM (what compares
- very good with 4,000.- USD).
-
- Matthias
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