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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« on: September 08, 2012, 11:38:30 PM »
You can probably build brand new Amiga 1000s  for $600 in material costs in China easy BUT who is going to pay the millions in R&D to recreate a 100% compatible Amiga 1000 motherboard and do all the testing? :)

Manufacturing costs per unit are not the issue, it's finding a genius to create something fantastic and revolutionary from the ground up that is difficult, R&D and upfront investment is why it doesn't happen on a regular basis. Even Macs are just regular PCs in different cases.
 

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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2012, 02:01:35 AM »
Interesting project. No updates for 3 years on gba1000?

For mass production you'd need to make cases, replica keyboard+interface, an easy to produce equivalent of all the chips inside an Amiga 1000, re-manufacture 3.5" Amiga compatible FDDs etc so even if that was a PCB layout ready to print out on a suitable machine there is still over a £million in initial investment needed whether you made a souped up faster model or an exact replica of original performance (but using today's production techniques and technologies like FPGA etc).
 

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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2012, 08:11:13 PM »
Is the ARM chip same endian as 680x0 or opposite like the x86?
 

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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2012, 08:17:16 PM »
Quote from: Mrs Beanbag;707546
They can be switched to either mode (bi-endian).


Ah, cool feature indeed.
 

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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2012, 02:49:36 AM »
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PC became available for really large corporations and goverments in the 1960s. The problem were size and price.

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But the 8088 IBM PC was not actually built until Commodore 64 era so no whatever that is it is not a PC :P
 

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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2012, 02:50:37 AM »
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I was planning on keeping my iphone 4 forever because I just replaced the screen and because I have never had an issue with the antenna...

I would like to get rid of AT&T and this "unlimited" data plan... They are complaining because I use over 3GB/month and throttle me.

I'd be pretty pissed if I rented a car from AVIS with "Unlimited" miles in Miami and it had a speed governor that kicked in (allowing a maximum of 15MPH) 1/2 way or Orlando.

What is the point of a LTE if I'm just going to burn through my data that much faster.


I was planning on keeping my Sony P-900 because it is less pretentious and does everything a touch screen phone needs to do LOL