You can pick up a realtek 8139 or 8029 PCI nic for a few dollars at most flea markets, used computer shops. Same with PCI sound cards. Not a big deal IMHO.
Sorry to enter the discussion this way, however no. He (she, me... maybe it's better saying "we"). We don't have to spend additional €5 to buy a PCI network card for a system thats costs over € 2000. It's who builds the machine who asks me to spend over € 2000 for his product, that should do that, silently, without pretending anything in exchange, but simply telling us "you know, we were a little late with the onboard drivers, but since we care for our beloved customers (we really SHOULD care about our customers, since they LOVE us enough to spend so much money for our system), we've added a € 5 network card you can use from day 1. We're sorry for that. The day we'll release the driver, you can free up a PCI slot to use it they way you like".
Some times ago Stephen Jones sold his iMica systems, whose mainboard was only partially supported by the OS (sound and some other stuff didn't work with AROS). Well, he replaced the missing features with proper PCI cards until the mainboard got fully supported. Then he even cut the price. And he didn't sell them for € 2000. Nor for € 1000, but less, much less money.
Hard core amigans won't ever stop astonishing me, when it has to do with protecting people who charge them with oversized prices for underwpowered systems, but please, please go on. I can't live without the poor excuses they use to do that.
