Nlandas wrote:
Framiga wrote:
Nlandas wrote:
So how do we get motion? 100 for each card to be manufactured is not a bad price point, if it's real. Can anyone get 50,000 pre-orders though? I know, depending on the markup, I want one. If they keep it real close to the manufacturer cost, I'll take two.
-Nyle
are you joking!
Do you really think thats a new PPC card will costs 100 Eur each? (to the "customers")
My estimate price for a small batch would be around 1000Eur each (if we are lucky)
Now come on - I didn't say they'd cost 100 Eur to the customers. I said it was 100 for each card to be manufactured and depending on the markup, I'd take two.
The guy who translated it, if he got it right, said that they wanted $50,000 Eur for 500 boards. When I plug that into Calc it's 100 Eur to manufacture. If they even make it up to 250 Eur that's over double the profit and a price that I could afford.
Now there hasn't been any movement on it but I was just curious how many of us would buy a new PPC board for say 250 EUR? If it's 500 between us and other sites and if the original discussion is valid, that's more impetus for them to build the boards.
-Nyle
As -D- has stated, it's a lot of money for a card that has to interface with 15 to 20 year old hardware... just to run an OS which doesn't actually need the old hardware and in fact would be better off without it...
A much better idea is pick up a ready made PPC platform and spend the money either porting the aforementioned OS to the ready made platform... or writing a VM to run the OS hosted in a more modern OS...
That €50000 would be much better spent on adding BlizzPPC emulation to UAE (with a nice fast PPC JIT for x86 hardware, and a nice VM on PPC hardware).
