barry@daisy.uchicago.edu (Barry Merriman) (08/15/89)
In article <7360@microsoft.UUCP> t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) writes: > >NeXT is not going to raise the price for anything, anytime. Look what happened >to Apple. Steve Jobs has become a supply-bargaining wizard, and won't buy >any RAM chips for $37 a shot. The cost of the parts should be monotonically >decreasing. I expect he'll keep the business price where it is and lower >the academic price in a year or two. Intuition says it'll bottom out at >about $4000 for the current model. The RAM will come way down, but the >monitor ain't cheap and I think he's already getting a bargain on the optical >drive. > Not so---here at the University of Chicago, the Cube started out selling at $7195 several months ago (and currently, I think), already a 10% markup over the original $6500 figure. How much do they sell for at other places? Are they actually $6500 anywhere? Anyone get them at < $6500 ? (This would certainly seem to be necessary in the near future: not only have Sun, DEC, and Silicon Graphics introduced ~ $10k super-workstations, but the Aug 14 Infoworld (last page) claims that Atari will shortly announce a 68030 based workstation with System V Unix, 8Mb, hard disc and 1200 x 900 momochrome screen for $3000, and a color version for $5000---so NeXT is getting squeezed from the high end and the low end.) -Barry Merriman
eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) (08/15/89)
In article <4997@tank.uchicago.edu> barry@daisy.UUCP (Barry Merriman) writes: >In article <7360@microsoft.UUCP> t-jondu@microsoft.UUCP (Jonathan Dubman) writes: >> >>NeXT is not going to raise the price for anything, anytime. Look what happened > >Not so---here at the University of Chicago, the Cube started out >selling at $7195 several months ago (and currently, I think), already >a 10% markup over the original $6500 figure. > The extra $695 someone's markup. The $6500 figure quoted excludes university markup for costs of support, etc. -- Eric H. Thayer School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon (412) 268-7679 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213