I cannot remember the exact phrases and he did not say how much more expensive. I think he was saying that he wants not to compete with Acube even if that would be possible. And that he would use the earnings for other related projects. And he said that the successor might be cheaper (as the X1000) but that is not certain. I assume that it will be similar to X1000 (my guess).
With the plan he proposes it is impossible to make if for anything less
than 2250 $ (+- 100 $) with custom case mouse keyboard and all ...
It will certainly be more expensive than that ... CPU is just not the
biggest cost in this and I agree with Nicholas that in business dog
eats dog ...
I can only imagine how "happy" ACube was when they heard that
another hardware manufacturer was entering tiny tiny market ...