The first production run will be about 500 units. This will be used to fund the next and so on. Well, that's going to be the way, unless I manage to get an investor with huge pockets and order 10k units at once... (unlikely given the current situation).
If you think that porting AmigaOS and MorphOS to ARM would be of benefit just for a single motherboard, then I think you got this on a wrong basis. It would be the start for many nice things, eg. eventually, one might just sell AmigaOS-loaded Beagleboards, or sth like that. The potential is big. Anyway, you know, if the PowerPC thing doesn't gather enough interest, I'd just as well try my luck on ARM.
Konstantinos
500 minus hold back for warranty replacement of say 50 at a bare minimum would be 450. Don't think I would risk that much money on either porting a OS to it or actual manufacturing of it unless there was a signed contract for the rest. Worst of all, what if there is a major flaw or bug in the chips like we have seen in the past PPC systems? And they do have issues as we have seen posted over the years.
From what I have seen so far of what the business plan looks like, I'd run in the opposite direction as fast I could unless this is popcorn money that can be throw away with little concern. ARM would be a better option, let Genesi do the heavy lifting on the A9 Dual core that is coming out in six months and pay for whatever ports you want from Amigaland. I can think of two Open Source OSs in Amigaland that could use a archangel that are moving to ARM.
