[comp.sys.mac.misc] Why I Switched to NeXT

eboltz@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric S. Boltz) (11/06/90)

I'll try to make this short as most aspects of the argument have already
been covered.


I have owned 2 macs and have used them at home and work for six
years. Currently I use a Mac IIfx at work. I was and still am a die
hard mac user. I even worked for a ms-dos computer store while
using a mac at home. I've turned a department here at hopkins away
from the brink of ms-dos destruction and converted them to mac.

Now for NeXT.


I had a Mac IIci 8/80 w/ 13" color at home. I was able to sell it for 
the cost of a NeXTstation AND a laser printer. Color is (was) great 
but unless you've got 10k it's hard to get QUALITY hardcopy. Besides
all the neat features of the NeXT (interface builder etc.) it's just
plain slick.


I bought one of the first macs when everyone in the pc market
sounded like every mac user today. Fact is the mac was slick as
snot and my money will always go to the innovator, not the big
"accepted" companies.

I can do it as well or better for less cash - and I still have an fx at work!


GO Mac!!

GO NeXT!!
--
Eric S. Boltz
The Johns Hopkins University
eboltz@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu