The X1000 will be > $2,225

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Oh. Another deadline, insane price, information still withheld.

This is much worse than even I imagined.

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Does that price include VAT?
Does that price include dealers cut or is that the price they'll be selling to the dealers?

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Do you have any idea how much it costs to produce such hardware on such small scale?

Insane amounts of money. Funnily when this was brought up before there were some people who wouldn't hear any of it.

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For people willing to build their own rigs,  having a pre-built (and overpriced) system with what may be viewed as an  (IMHO) ugly case/keyboard/mouse is a big turn off.

You're not alone in this assessment. The keyboard is just horrible:

It looks like the cheapest and flimsiest 50 cent chinese keyboard you can find, with plastic stickers/decals to re-brand it amiga.

Eow.

Oh and the price? 24€ / 27 USD / £20. Wo-ah, that's a nice markup for such a cheapo keyboard.

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Boing Ball (NOT a sticker)-------------------------------AmigaONE logo is well done too

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The keyboard is a flimsy looking el cheapo one. The "amigaone" decal looks like some rubbery thing that has adhesive for attaching. Many companies use these to "brand" their products, such as no-name chinese laptops. It looks cheesy.

The "boing" keys look out of place. What happened to the amiga A mark anyway?

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The Peg2 was a decent system at a reasonable price (by amiga hardware standards).

Why did they stop making it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive was a major contributing factor I believe.

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After a series of distputes they handed the second part to Hyperion in last september settlement

As far as I can read not all rights were transferred.

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Surely RoHS compliance required only a change to the materials used in the PCB itself and using lead free solder rather than any electronic redesign.

Nope, it would have required massive redesign. Many of the components were no longer available or weren't available as RoHS.

Which, assuming board production was outsourced anyway, should not have really been much of a problem regardless.

It wasn't outsourced, the production happened at b-plan gmbh (DCE production lines afaik, basically the source of all phase5 boards as well).
Some video http://www.bplan-gmbh.org/news/april.mov

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It's quite easy to tell that DAX hasn't been around for long.