Comparing that
Coldfire-Atari with our own
AmigaOne...........
here(near the bottom)
Thomas: Some furore was caused by the likely price of around €1,000 just for the motherboard of the new computer. Various people pointed to the fact that the AmigaOne G3, say, should only cost a bare €600. What can one say fairly about the pricing?
Oliver: Certainly we could have also quoted a price around €600 - but what good is an unrealistic estimate of the costs to us? In the worst case the ColdFire project would have died with the appearance of the computer, as we all would have gone broke. To properly understand the price of around €1,000, it is imperative to know the extremely problematic market situation of our platform. The market is simply too small for mass production of such a computer. As a first step our only goal is to supply the existing users and to bring the system to current levels, and only then can we start to open up new markets outside the Atari world and enthuse new users for our system.
So, people in the Amiga sphere were upset at the A1 motherboard price-point when those Atari-Coldfire people will have to deal with a much
higher price? Those Atari-folk make the price-screamers here look like real nit-pickers!
Thomas: Is the delivery of a bare board planned, so users and dealers can assemble their own system, or is a complete system including drives, mouse, keyboard and so on being planned?
Oliver: Though a complete system is not our main aim at the present state of development, we are certain that we will also offer such a computer. For this we will naturally also turn to the many suggestions of Atari users in various forums, who have written some very constructive and noteworthy ideas about this theme. So I am also completely convinced of the importance of a complete variant, which also has to have a certain Atari-typical appearance - in other words a striking housing which has to distinguish itself from run-of-the-mill PC-ware. However before we all rack our brains about such a solution the computer first has to be brought onto the correct path and a lot of work needs to be done.
This Oliver seems convinced of RETAINING a historical continunity in outer "housing" appearance in this Atari-Coldfire project!!!
