>They are also asking a pretty high price for it if
>you ask me. Sounds like a 300% markup or more.
Welcome to the Amiga platform. What have you been using until today?
Ah, I can clearly remember paying US$550 for my PicassoIV, the PC equivalent with the same Cirrus chip on it at the time cost about US$50. I'd say a 3x markup is actually making progess from teh 10x markups we were used to a number of years ago.
OK, the PicassoIV had more parts and did more stuff, things which were completely unnecessary on the PC cards which didn't need fancy flickerfixers, and some price increase was justified for this extra components and engineering. But its still about as equivalent as you can get comparing an Amiga Cirrus VGA card with 4MB RAM to a PC Cirrus VGA card with 4MB RAM...
