Wayne wrote:
There are a lot of things which haven't been considered. First and foremost is that they're doing all this in England.
No, they're doing all this in Taiwan. Besides, I reckon low volume production costs in the UK wouldn't be much worse than in the US (which is where I assume you'd be working on this).
Keep it in context here. I'm more than willing to invest a few bucks in an AmigaOne mobo, then solder off the chip and smack on a socket for testing..
A TeronCX from MAI without CPU for less than US$300 would be cheaper to experiment with. Also, it'd be interesting to investigate the degree of OS4 compatibility with these boards.
.... And I never said it would be less expensive than the 600 soldered part but which would you rather do? $550 for a 600mhz part, or a bit less for a socketed part you can put your own CPU in/on?
The latter. No doubt about it. OTOH, it might be cheaper to simply buy socketed boards from the manufacturer.
Naive? Possibly, hell, more than probably, but then again it can't be any more naive than ahem... building a company to continue a computer based on getting money from investors in an economy which was bound to hiccup.
Heh!
