First News about Pegasos 2

[Hammer]

At the current exchange rate of £0.61 to the US$, it's £214.31 including the VAT!

Bye bye AmigaOne.  

Anyone who buys an A1 after these babies come out is an absolute fool, and has more money than sense.

IF Eyetech doesn’t respond to the competition e.g. lowering the price for their product then the said company may get a bloody nose.

Any future targeted price VS current price comparison can be flawed since we don’t know how Eyetech will respond to the renewed competition(later in the year).

As for MAI, I do hope they effectively compete with Marvel… The PPC chipsets market needs a X86 style chipset wars e.g. VIA vs nVidia battle royal (for the AMD Athlon market).

[Hammer]

wow thats an incredible price... I was thinking at a minimum Peg2 would cost say 600 or so... pretty good job!!! 299 willl definitly lure some amigans back...

One may have keep in mind that the said product may have to compete with HW products from outside the Amiga world e.g. incoming AMD’s Athlon 64/Athlon XP 3400+ (with 400Mhz DDR FSB chipsets) and Intel’s Pentium 4 @3200Ghz (with 800Mhz QDR FSB chipsets)**.
 
Define ‘Amigans’. Note that official AmigaForever 5.3 and Amithlon are available for X86 platforms.

**Just keeping things into perspective.  Incoming products will push the current top end product's prices lower.

[Hammer]

If there were PPC clones, the cost would be the same as the cheapest Win/Intel based solution you could find....think about it.

The PPC clone market* may have to reach the ‘economic of scale’ similar to the X86 market before it reaches price equalisation with X86.

One of the cheapest X86 motherboard** I can find****  is $~39 USD (An MSI MS-6340-010, for the Athlon/Duron based CPU). That's around $80 AUD.

*Non-PPC 4xx class.
**Not factoring the 'obsolete' Socket 370 Class motherboard, since they could go down to $19 USD.
****With referable reference (i.e. pricewatch.com).

PS; This is just the motherboards.

IF PPC* platform market is as large as X86, it may attract Microsoft’s attention e.g. Windows NT 4.0 PPC edition (as an example) OR Softwindows 95 (uses a licensed Windows 95 code; for the PPC MacOS platform). Now armed with dotNET ecosystem; different native versions of their said products wouldn’t be a problem.    

Just a side note; Can MorphOS compete with a showdown battle with MS Windows XP PPC edition(speculation)?