uh folks,
Please check out the prices on industrial computers before you post please.
There is a huge price difference between comsumer PC's and industrial PC's
Socket 7 industrial PC's boards cost more than the uA1 also if you check out the prices on a PPC industrial Board you would find that they sell for well over twice the price of a uA1.
uh last I checked windows XP cost ~ $100 for the consumer version and ~$200 for the pro version. So the price of OS4.0 is really not out of line.
Also I see nothing wrong with making people buy the OS. Becuase if you buy the AmigaOS version of the board how else are you LEGALY going to run the OS. If you only want to run linux thats a different board without the OS4 uboot. So that argument doesn't work.
Also if you read the Posting you would see that the PCI slot is expandable. Also the Consumer version uses the same CPU board as all of the XE boards.
There are people currently working on making faster CPU modules available in the near future.
Kgrach
