@Kronos
I fear you are right about the prices.
Unless/until the cost of the A1 systems is brought down to current pc market levels, I believe it will remain forever a fringe platform.
As with all things in this game, prices should fall. I hope Eyetech and their partners will sell enough A1s into the 'community' to allow them to make some price adjustments, so enabling them to tackle the broader pc/Mac market.
Maybe their plans to coaxe the Chinese to adopt the Amiga system rather than (the apparently despised) Microsoft's, is the way they (Eyetech) plan to achieve this goal?
Cheers,
JaX