Would you pay €226 for a minimig?

[alexh]

They are making a killing at that price, at least 100% profit.

Either they are not making very many (sub 50) or they are getting greedy.

I didnt think a 1.5Mbyte OCS A500 was worth €138, it is absolutely not worth €226

[alexh]

Krusher wrote:
It's basically an fpga dev board [snip] Which means you can in theory run all sorts of oldskool computers with it.

I know you say "in theory" but so far I am not aware of any available HDL having been "ported" to the MiniMig platform.

The Atari ST VHDL should have been "easy" to get running, but I've not seen anyone even talking about it.

Perhaps the lack of boards in the hands of "those that can" has meant a slow process?

[alexh]

Darrin wrote:
Bloody hell!  If they are only making 100% profit then that's less than the usual retail mark-up.

As someone who works in the hardware retail industry, I wish we made more than 100% profit.

50% is good but it is as low as 17% on set-top-boxes.

Darrin wrote:
And don't forget that what you call "profit" also has to pay for service and support (including dead boards).

Touche. I hadn't really thought of that, or insurance, or inventory storage etc.

Darrin wrote:
Fine if you don't like the price, but don't slag off a business for trying to keep it's books out of the red.

I understand, I do. But this is not an ordinary retail venture, Acube do not have any NRE costs to recover. The r&d and even the PCB design was all done for them. All they are doing is effectively offering manufacturing services.

Unfortunately in the post Commodore Amiga era there has always been a temptation for unscrupulous developers to take advantage of the users due to the almost "monopoly" that exists.

[alexh]

I guess you are right. Especially if ACube have said they are considering producing future products should this be a success.