39clocks@violet.berkeley.edu (Peter Marinac;;;4159743128;KL75) (05/07/91)
Does anyone have any idea of the scope of the NeXT product line that will
be effected by price upgrades on the 10nth? Specifically, I was considering
the purchase of an 040 motherboard, but was thinking of holding off for the
third generation with a 40 or 50 MHz '040 and for signs that NeXT would
actually weather the year.
Thanks, PeterDWN2@psuvm.psu.edu (05/08/91)
What's all this talk of price increases? Does anyone know if NeXT is changing
the RETAIL prices of their products?. Several months ago I asked a NeXT
employee if any price changes were expected before the end of the Summer, the
answer was NO that NeXT would not increase RETAIL prices, but if individual
universities were not purchasing equipment at a rate to equal the university's
committment to NeXT that the discount rate at the individual university might
very well be changed. So does anyone know if:
1. NeXT IS changing RETAIL prices - either up or down?
2. NeXT is going to readjust the individual university discounts?
3. Both 1 and 2?
Dave
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Speaking of price restructuring, does anyone know for sure if the prices are going up or down? I've held off buying my slab for this long; if the prices go up any more, I'll have to start looking at Macs! (*shudder, groan*) Specifically, has anyone at UMD heard of upcoming price increases/decreases? (They're my nearest NeXT dealer, and they buy in huge bulk orders, so I've heard.) Sorry for wasting the bandwith on such trivial nonsense. (And now back to the NeXT vs. Amiga/SPARC/et al. wars -- that's much more important! :-) -- Todd <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> Todd Radel UseNet: radel@chopin.udel.edu <> <> English/Int'l. Relations undergrad Prodigy: GJDF25C <> <> University of Delaware KA3QCE <> <>** "Molag no LIKE core dumps! Molag EAT core dumps!" -- Chappy **<> <>**"There will be so little of that, it isn't even funny." -- The Lizard **<> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (05/08/91)
In article <17076@chopin.udel.edu> radel@chopin.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes: >Speaking of price restructuring, does anyone know for sure if the prices are >going up or down? I've held off buying my slab for this long; if the prices >go up any more, I'll have to start looking at Macs! (*shudder, groan*) > I just got back from tonites SCAN meeting (So. Cal. NeXT); the word from the next reps there (campus reps + 1 next employee) was: (1) There will be no price restructing on 10th of may, or any other time in the immediate future---this is an unfounded rumor. (2) NeXT did recently (a week or so ago) modify its prices as follows: * 17'' color monitor dropped in price by $1000 * 21'' color monitor dropped in price by $500 * the cost of the NeXTStation Color _computer_ (pizza box) increased in price by $1000 (so that a 17'' NS Color will stay the same price, and a 21'' NS Color will cost $500 more than previously). This brings the current price (edu discount) of the 17'' Color monitor to around $2150 (here at UCLA), for example. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
radel@chopin.udel.edu (Todd Radel) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May8.050545.26843@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: >I just got back from tonites SCAN meeting (So. Cal. NeXT); >the word from the next reps there (campus reps + 1 next employee) >was: [various stuff deleted...] > * the cost of the NeXTStation Color _computer_ > (pizza box) increased in price by $1000 NeXT must be the only computer manufacturer in the world that would _raise_ the price of a computer. Every other system in the world costs less and less each month ... why should NeXT be any different (unless the price of some components went up)??? -- Todd <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> Todd Radel UseNet: radel@chopin.udel.edu <> <> English/Int'l. Relations undergrad Prodigy: GJDF25C <> <> University of Delaware KA3QCE <> <>** "Molag no LIKE core dumps! Molag EAT core dumps!" -- Chappy **<> <>**"There will be so little of that, it isn't even funny." -- The Lizard **<> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>