Hyperion bankrupt?

[Kremlar]

I understand that this is a bad situation for AmigaKit and A-EON, but if I had placed an order for an X1000 with no indication it had been shipped I would be doing my best to cancel as well.  
 
 Curious about the "many hours" it takes to assemble these systems.  Is this an over exaggeration?  It takes about 30 minutes to assemble a PC nowadays.  What is different about an X1000?

[Kremlar]

Remember that every X1000 is different, assembled bespoke to the customer's order with care. This is not a low cost budget PC that is quickly thrown together.  

What's different?  Different video card, amount of RAM, hard drive or SSD?  How does that add to the assembly time of a system?  Each X1000 has the same motherboard, processor and chassis (white/black), so if anything I would think that would make them QUICKER to assemble.

When building a random cheap PC there are always variables that can't be accounted for unless you are using the same motherboard and chassis over and over again.

How long does it take to mount the motherboard in the chassis?  Mount a hard drive?  Plug in some RAM and a video card?

Now, the software portion of the process might take some time, and apparently the shipping process, but I imagine you guys have done a lot of AmigaOS 4 systems.  Since the variables are so few I would imagine you guys would have the process down pat by now.

Unless the failure rate of motherboards, CPUs or the other components is high it really shouldn't take that long to assemble and install the OS and drivers.

[Kremlar]

In what universe is being declared bankrupt by a court an oversight? In Hermans?

Yep.  If they somehow pull out of this it won't be long, unless Ben Hermans has a lot more money he wants to burn through.

I mean, how much $ are they possibly bringing in?

[Kremlar]

And it's was not 600$ a year, but 600.000$ up front, plus 5% of all profits.

Where do you see that?  Original quote says $600.  Seems very reasonable.

[Kremlar]

Are you referring back to me or do you have another source? I checked and my writing was "600.000 dollars".

The source is a post someone else linked to:

http://www.amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=37810&forum=17&start=100&viewmode=flat&order=0#710057

[Kremlar]

Had an '86 RX-7 when I was much younger that developed bad seals, white smoke.  Had to keep a gallon of water with me.  Swapped it out with a used motor that lasted for a while, but that one ended up going the other way and started blowing blue smoke on startup.  Still, it gave me lots of enjoyable miles and I was kind of sad when I had to get rid of it.

Had a '94 RX-7 TT for a few years in 2005 or so, weekend driver.  What an amazing car!  Had always wanted one and was in heaven when I finally got one.  Flew out to Ohio to purchase and drove it back.  I always thought what attracted me to the rotary is what attracted me to the Amiga when I was younger.

Now I'm a Jeep guy but have a '92 300ZX TT for the occasional weekend drive.  Don't like it as much as my old RX-7, but I do enjoy it - especially the t-tops.