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Re: You thought the X1000 was overpriced?
« on: September 22, 2011, 10:32:33 PM »
The hardware for this $25k machine will still be overpriced compared to the competition.  You will not be buying Quadro's or PCIe SSD's in 1000+ lot quantities to be a reasonable player in the market.  Anyone that can add 2 + 2 can do the math.

Your support will still be lacking compared to your competitors.
There's reports of calls for support to your company going unanswered, questions not answered, your CEO making sexual slurs against detractors, as well as him insulting the community as a whole.  That might be tolerated by the penny ante retro crowd, but it won't be by the big boys.

There's stories of people having DOA 64's arrive at their door, keyboards and wifi entirely unworking, overheating problems all over the place.  If you are going to go after the high end market, simply throwing shiny components into a shiny case isn't enough.  It wasn't enough for Voodoo even, much less a company making the jump from $600 Atom boxes to $25k wonder machines.

And once again, how is this new "Amiga" workstation an "Amiga" in the least, lol?  No one would have a single gripe about the company if they knocked off the charade of being the "savior of the Amiga".  You're raping the corpse of a once well established brand, and nothing more - least you could do is be honest about it.
 

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Re: You thought the X1000 was overpriced?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 11:10:05 PM »
You aren't re-inventing the wheel, Dammy.  They are building a computer, not a shuttle to Mars.  Only so many ways to skin a cat, and there's 1000 companies making high end workstations.

You'll be taking readily available, off the shelf items and jamming them into fancy cases, just like every other high end vendor.  It's not rocket science, it's not the 1990's, and you won't be pulling an SGI and flip the industry arse over teakettle with innovation.