AmigaONE X1000 Free Shipping Offer

[Vlabguy1]

It has been a while since I stopped in at AmigaKit(sorry).. $3,000..wow.  Just curious have you sold "a lot" of these??

Rich

[Vlabguy1]

@carvedeye

There is a wafer thin margin on each X1000 sold, so we cannot go offering big discounts such as free shipping on a regular basis, otherwise there would be no point in us selling the unit in the first place.  The X1000 is a very costly piece of kit to manufacture.

Well..that begs the question.. Why manufaure the kit at all?  Doesn't seem all that
profitable.  What makes it so pricey? The lack of volume?

[Vlabguy1]

Yep, and paying over $1000 for a PPC accelerator for a legacy machine doesn't make sense either, but we do it.

If a sub 300MHz board is worth $1000, a six times faster board at $3000 doesn't sound as unreasonable.

Well the vintage Amiga stuff is most always $$.  How many of these have been sold?
If a PPC accelerator came up for say. $1,200  then that seems like a bargain in comparison.  So your logic works the opposite way as well. Not baggin on it..if I had a ton of disposable cash I might buy one.  Just was
stunned when I saw the price.

[Vlabguy1]

I'd like to see the actual number of X1000's sold to date.  Im sure OS 4 is great and it's def. 100% Amiga!  Why not just bag this X1000 hardware and blast out OS4.xxx for current hardware..or even vintage Mac PPC stuff.  Seems like wasted effort at those prices and lack of serious demand!!  

New Mac Pro 2,999.00 just sayin.. for comparison sake.

Rich.

[Vlabguy1]

I like how all your bashing of the X1000 is keeping this post at the top of the homepage... thus promoting AmigaKit's sale even more.  Methinks your plans have backfired, LOL.   :roflmao:

Well I certainly was not bashing on the X1000.. I'm sure its a darn good machine, would love to have one.. just the $$, and I understand the cost of very low volume production runs.

Rich