First Contact : AmigaOne X1000 Limited Edition

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Why the criticism regarding the RAM?  Would a next gen Amiga use anywhere near 1GB?

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I guess custom hardware at this low quantity is expensive.  Dropping memory and HD size (which wouldn't be used anyway) seems a reasonable compromise.   Plus, I'm reasonably certain that for every "£xxx is too pricey" comment there'll be a number of Amigans that are happy to splash the cash.  It may seem pricey compared to intel kit, but perhaps not so expensive when compared to the amount some of us may have spent on our classic amigas or other hobbies.

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So the retail cost of the motherboard is $1689.56.

I'm not sure of the quantities involved here but I imagine they're not huge.

How much time has spent developing and testing this board?  How many 'one off' test samples needed to be made before the final revision?  How many man hours were spent on this?  This wasn't a hobby project like Natami - this is real companies that need to pay salaries.

This isn't a criticism aimed at B00tDisk (I just quoted his post) but seriously, if you want custom hardware that isn't aimed at the mass market - you pay the price.

All credit to Trevor for investing and believing in this; the prices are what they are.  *shrug*


Steve