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In article <1992Nov11.071304.16768@tetrasoft.com> JGrace@TetraSoft.com (Joseph  
R. Grace) writes:
> In article <yjp1lah@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
> writes:
> >  eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
> >  > The new Sun SPARCClassic (Tsunami based) offers 15" color and
> >  > a 200MB hard disk for $3995.
> >  
> >  It also can't be bought yet.  Sun has made a big fanfare about products  
they  
> >  won't be shipping until late winter/early spring.  Ask NeXT about it's  
> >  response when this machine is shipping.
> >  
> >  Also, try discussing this in some other newsgroup.
> 
> Also, read the small writing in the advertisements --- it's $3995 in  
quantities  
> of 12!  I don't know what the price is for just 1.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> = Joe =
> -- 
> Joe Grace <JGrace@TetraSoft.com> (NeXTMail preferred.)
> TetraSoft International   Business and Personal Productivity Tools for
> NeXTSTEP

	The price is $4295 (with the 15" color display and ~250MB hard drive  
display) for any quantity other than a multiple of 12. So, if you buy 15, it 12  
at $3995 and 3 at $4295. In addition, there will be no educational disounting.  
I hope NeXT never sinks to this level of marketing. However, it is a low price  
for the amount of power you get (I've heard around 25 SPEC89s, as compared to  
the $8,000 Turbo Color's paltry 14.6 [and it doesn't have the awful problems  
with disk acess that the NeXT does {did you see UNIX Review's review of the  
Turbo Color?}), though the Solaris user interface is awful (and it only runs  
version 2.1). I'd just like to see NeXT make a decision on its future, so that  
I can decide which system to go with (NeXT, Mac, Sun, IBM, or other).


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