Price for the Minimig enclosure announced

[TheDaddy]

I am very pleased to announce the price of the Minimig enclosure.

Specifications:

It completely encloses and protects the Minimig board (rev 1.1) as sold by ACube, Amigakit and Vesalia

4mm thick acrylic capped High Impact ABS

Clip-in mounting system, no need for screws

Access to all ports on the Minimig board, including the Reset and Menu switches.

Four 8mm high black rubber feet

Modern, clean, elegant design

Visual access to Power and Drive LEDs

Easy assembly with only two screws

Colour: glossy white

Completely exclusive!

There will be an initial limited production run, so first come first serve.

I am offering it at an aggressive price. It undercuts any other mini/nano itx form factor case on sale.

I have started taking pre-payments to go into production – A big thank you to everyone who has confirmed their pre-payment!

How to pay: PayPal, to speed things up.

Email: amigarulez@hotmail.com

www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk for photos and video.

Price for one Minimig enclosure in glossy white is: £ 67.45 (GBP) + Postage and Packaging

It is custom made and of limited production, so I believe it is good value for money.

Now your Minimig has a home.:-)
 
Thank you very much for your support,

Loriano

[TheDaddy]

Just to let you know that all the Minimig enclosures come with the Minimig name/logo in the colour (red, silver, gold, blue, yellow, orange, black, pink or green) chosen when ordered.

Thank you,
 :-)

[TheDaddy]

@alexh

>>Too much for me (around the £20-£25 mark and I would have had one)

 :-o


>>but congratulations for producing something. Kudos.

Thanks.

>>Not a fair comparison. The other cases come with a PicoPSU and a 12v adapter worth an additional £30.

It is a fair comparison:
Mini-nano itx case = £50-130 very expensive even with the PSU included (which by the way it's added to the price!)

Disadvantages of the off the shelf mini-nano itx case:

It DOES NOT fit around the Minimig board
If you want to make it fit you need to find a square one of the same size as the Minimig board, you need to cut perfect holes, you need to file them so you don't cut your fingers when plugging things in, if the case is too big you need to buy extensions.
All this is a lot of time and effort, things I have already done for you.
Now add all this effort/time/money to the cost of your mini-itx case and you end up with a hacked mini/nano itx case which costs more than my Minimig enclosure.

Minimig case: £67.45 , £17 more than the cheapest nano/mini itx case, it fits the Minimig board. It looks better, at least in my and other people opinion, than most of the mass produced ones.It was made JUST for the Minimig by a long time Amigan. Go figure.

Thank you,
 :-)

[TheDaddy]

>>The problems is that at £67.45 ($134.90)

S&H? Is that postage and packaging?

P&P is not going to be £10-15. You are looking at more like £5-8 max. for North and South America, £4-5 for Europe and U.K.

>>I know it's a great looking case, but you're going to get a lot of this.

Thanks.

I am not trying to get rich Darrin, I am trying to get my development costs back, if people don't understand this then what can I do?

I have had people telling me that they were prepared to pay £160 (200 Euros) for it and people saying no more than £40 (50 Euros). You can't please everyone.

Thank you,
 :-)

[TheDaddy]

>>Congratulations for doing this, but I'm afraid it's too much for my wallet: realistically, £30 is the maximum I'd be paying for something like this,

Maybe one day, when more Minimigs get sold, there are about 100 Minimig boards out there more or less. Maybe when compatibility improves more people will buy one.

>>and to hit that price you need to be making a whole load of 'em

Exactly, but I am not going to make 100,000 when there are 100-150 Minimig boards out there. :-)

>>I do understand the effort involved so there's no need to defend the price to me

Thanks, this is exactly what every developer goes through in the Amiga market.

>>Best of luck with making this work.

Thanks Nick,

 :-)

[TheDaddy]

>>I actually have a PSU, but it had an EU plug so I need a shaver adapter. Once I get myself one, I promise rapid ports of the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC464 cores (and corresponding PIC) to MiniMig.

That is an awesome statement and promise, it would make the Minimig a multi platform machine. I have a spare shaver adapter I can send to you.

PM me. :-)

[TheDaddy]

@amigadave

>>If your estimates of the number of MiniMig boards out in the wild (100-150) are close to accurate, you might have a hard time reaching your minimum order number needed to go into production.

I can't say that you are wrong there, if we can't go into production it'd be sad but not the end of the world. I created something, I am proud of it. :-)

>>Getting 33% to 50% of the MiniMig owners to purchase your case would be quite a marketing accomplishment.

We will have to wait and see. I might end up with one VERY expensive enclosure, very limited edition! :-)

>>I was concerned about your project from the beginning when it was evident that the cost of the finished product was going to be over $50

One day when we have 90% compatibility, ADFs writing support and those promised machines implementation (by alexh)we might see more Minimigs sold.

>>I still hope that as more MiniMig boards are built and ACube sells more completed boards, that you will find enough buyers to recoup your development costs.

Thanks Dave,
 :-)

[TheDaddy]

@everyone,

Following the emails I am receiving asking if I am going to apply the adhesive logo/name to every single case by hand the answer is yes, yes I am. I know it's nuts but it saves on costs.

I am going to be absolutely exhausted... :-)

[TheDaddy]

Thanks Straycat,

 :-)