Interview with Trevor Dickinson

[AJCopland]

It is?  First, its 163,708 GBP at current exchange rates, as the article said EURO.

Second what value would there be for you in this if they did spend it more wisely?  If they did you'd have less to make fun of.

Just a thought but at £1500 per X1000 they'd only need to sell 110 of them to have made as much as it cost to develop. Now assuming that they're only seeing 10% profit from each machine that's 1,100 X1000's to break even.

I'm not sure that there's enough demand in the Amiga community, and I've pulled many of the numbers from my arse (and i'm very tired) but that 10% profit per machine is probably pessimistic given the £1500-ish price tag.

They may very well break even on just 500 or so machines if the machine itself is profitable.

Andy

[AJCopland]

@AJCopland
You're assuming that the 200k investment so far includes the actual production costs. They're still working the kinks out, they may not have even done a run yet.

And you're assuming that it doesn't after all everyone one here is of the opinion that Euro200k is a lot for a PPC mobo _design_ so it might include production.

We don't know so we'll just have to wait and see, I just don't think it's entirely fair to disparage him until we know for sure.

Also everyone seems to be screaming about the bad value of the "developer" version which costs £1500. The fact that he's made such a distinction does seem to hint that there will be a cheaper "consumer" iteration.

Andy

[AJCopland]

The whole idea of "trying" doesn't impress me, all kinds of idiots try all kinds of ridiculous things and loose their shirts in the process. They're fools.

Those who try often fail but those who never try never succeed