I remember people complaining about how slow the magneto-optical drive was. By the time they ditched the MO-drive as the default, NeXT already had a bad taste

I remember people complaining about how slow the magneto-optical drive was. By the time they ditched the MO-drive as the default, NeXT already had a bad taste in people's mouths, esp. at the introductory price of US$6.5K.