Pre-assembled Minimigs - Cmonnnnn!

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There's a huge amount of interest in pre-assembled Minimigs, so I wonder why it seems to be so hard to get hold of one?

For those (like me!) who have neither the time, nor the surface-mount soldering skills required, the only way we'll ever be able to get one of these darned machines is when they're sold "ready to go"!

If a shiny new PCB is only 9 quid, surely a fully assembled board couldn't cost more than 50 quid?

This is a prime opportunity for someone to make a buck and also to help out the Amiga community by getting a 'new' machine out there for people to buy!

So C'MONNNNNN someone! (please  :-D)

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I guess what it needs is someone (an Amiga-oriented company?) to (excuse the buzzwords!) pick it up and run with it.

Surely the manufacturing costs in China would be low enough to make a profit? There are places that specialise in smaller production runs. Anyway, I'm sure that they could sell a thousand - how many of the C64DTVs are out there?

I don't fancy getting someone local to do the donkey-work - can you imagine the hassles of fault-finding and rework?!?

I'm sure they'd be quite a few people who would be willing to put up deposits to get the ball rolling...

I'm quite capable of fitting the assembled PCB into a case and adding connector and other bits and pieces, but unless I can get one of these I'm going to have to stick to WinUAE for my Amiga-thrills!

Cheers,

Mike.