25 Minimigs to be adopted

[voxel]

Hi everybody :-)

As I've announced, I've received the first batch of 10 Minimig pcbs today :

My first announcement has been so well received that I've ordered 15 more pcbs to make more happy Minimig customers.



As soon as I get the components I begin to populate that little beasties. Firsts deliveries are planed for February 2008. Final price will be under US$500 or 350 Euros (depending on the currency change).

In the meanwhile, if you want to secure your personal minimig you can pre-order it by sending a Paypal payment of US$150 or 100 Euros to voxel-AT-nat-POINT-fr (you know what to remove to get the real address ;-)), don't forget to add your delivery address, it'll help me to quote the P&P :-)

As soon as your minimig is ready to ship (on a first in - first out basis) you'll receive a Paypal invoice asking for the remaining and P&P, with or without assurance, you'll have the choice.

Merry Christmas to all

[Lemmink]

Well at least for one person the announced "massproduction" of MiniMigs by Acube is bad news  :cry:  I hope you don't lose too much in you effort to support the community

[cecilia]

how is this 'bad news'???

[AMC258]

Bad news for him, but as all competition is, it's good news for us.

[Lemmink]

Yah, but ACube given sell date of mid January is about one month earlyer then his proposed date of mid February. So with everyone itching to get one the only way that there are any customers left for his MiniMigs is that ACube underproduces.
ACube hasn`t give a sales price yet but competing with full manual assembly agains automatic assembly the "winner" is already clear.

With ACube announcement coming out of the blue he is left out in the cold I`m affraid....

I`m afraid that this poor guy has to choose between working for 10 bucks per piece or write off the investment he made in parts as a complete personal loss.

[Colin_Camper]

"ACube hasn`t give a sales price yet but competing with full manual assembly agains automatic assembly the "winner" is already clear."

I don't think A-cube are 'mass producing' or assembling automatically. I think initially, we are probably talking dozens rather than 100s.
 
As with any minimig assembled PCB source; Get it quick because they will probably sell out quick!

They would have to produce > 100s to be a problem for this guy!

Like most of the Minimig production I think it is guys doing what they can for others.

Nusim have sold several hundred blank PCBs so I think there is room for ACube, Wizard and Voxel with their populated boards.

[Lemmink]

Ähem you know who I am talking about...ACube, you know the company distributing OS4 classic and producing the SAM440 board. Do you really think they will have a guy sit down and solder the board by hand ?
My guess the first production batch will be 100-200 units.

[nBit7]

Ähem you know who I am talking about...ACube, you know the company distributing OS4 classic and producing the SAM440 board. Do you really think they will have a guy sit down and solder the board by hand ?

I am not sure that ACube actually manufacture any hardware.  I think they probably out source the production of hardware.  But I could be wrong.

Either way it is not impossible that they too are getting boards hand soldered (if less than 200).  At the end of the day the minimig boards are fairly simple to hand solder by today's standards.  But ACube would have better component sourcing abilities (internal or external) than any hobbiest.

[Andeda]

I think this is good news, there are many members in this community that could almost kill for a Minimig  :-D
So go ahead, heat up your soldering iron, im pretty sure you are going to sell those minimigs for a reasonable price.
And good luck.

[voxel]

Sure I will sells it :-)

Especially with their exclusive cristal-clear enclosure (NOT the current two plexiglass sandwich you know) I'll deliver it inside :-D

[redrumloa]

Ähem you know who I am talking about...ACube, you know the company distributing OS4 classic and producing the SAM440 board. Do you really think they will have a guy sit down and solder the board by hand ?
My guess the first production batch will be 100-200 units.

Agreed, Acube seems to be a competent company with at least a reasonable amount resources. I think if they mass produce, keep the price reasonable and advertise, they could have a hit on their hands unlike the Amiga market has seen in a long time. Done right, they should easily get sales in the thousands.

To me, it comes down to price and quality. My expectations are for good quality, we'll see how they approach pricing. I hope they see big picture and price aggressively low. Minimig really can be the best thing to happen to the Amiga community in a long time, it can bring in fresh returning retro users. If the price is low enough, I will buy several.

-edit-
Ooops, we're getting OT. I hope voxel doesn't get hammered too bad. His best chance would be to crank them out as fast as he can, try to sell before Acube becomes available. I do suspect squeezing out a profit post Acube availability will be difficult.

[Andeda]

"Especially with their exclusive cristal-clear enclosure (NOT the current two plexiglass sandwich you know) I'll deliver it inside"

Sounds nice, please send us some pictures when you have the first one ready

[Firedawg]

I have three minimig boards that are awaiting component deliveries.  My cost to produce a minimig is $162USD per board without labor added.  The cost can differ by country and regions on shipping cost.  To produce this commercially and provide support will not be cheap.  I applaud Acube Systems for stepping up, but they are in business to make money, so it will be interesting to see what their able to do with pricing their units.  My hats off to voxel, build with quality and your migs will sell.

[HenryCase]

@Voxel and @Firedawg

Great to hear about your Minimig building projects, we need all the units we can get at the moment. Please let us see pictures when you've got a completed board.