A1 owners should by a complete Peg setup and have 2 boxes instead of 1.
Cana peg run OS4? If not, then I personally have no use for it.
Do we really need 1.7GHz? For most of us, probably not. But some would like it anyway. I'm not suprized by the price. Look up pricing for the CPU alone, in ROHS compliant version, and see what kind of pricing there is to get the components...