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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
In-Reply-To: hychejw@infonode.ingr.com's message of 3 Apr 91 11:21:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.112104.6657@infonode.ingr.com> hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche) writes:

   >BTW: The NeXTstation is faster than the SPARC IPC.

	   How many of you feel that someone here is trying to shove a NeXT
   down your trought?

Nah, just stating a fact.

	   I think the next question to ask is who is gonna buy a NeXT and
   who is gonna buy an Amiga 3000.
	   My next big purchase is going to be an Amiga 3000 for multimedia
   work.  Now lets talk real uses, what can I do with an NeXTstation.  If
   you can convince me that it is better than a A3000 I will buy it.


Better than the A3000 for what?  The A3000 is going to be better than
a NeXTStation for video, and multimedia in general.  You have to buy a
Cube and the NeXTDimension Board for this, and that's going to cost
you $10,000.  But for a lot of the users do, the NeXT is better.  DTP,
spreadsheets, etc, and it has more horsepower in the 68040 to do these
things.  The DSP provides great sound, and the 17" monitor looks great
and it's a boon to productivity.  You can run X and an IBM PC in a
window for compatibility.  I haven't seen Amiga DOS 2.0, but 1.3
didn't look so hot.  How do you drag a window part way off screen?
More importantly, to the software average user, a lot of great
software is becoming available.  Think about this.  If graphics power
is so important, why does everyone by Macs and PCs?

-Mike


