Hi,
Just went browsing through the Amiga Stores looking for a new modern board to buy, I think the Amiga stores are charging to high of prices for what you are getting. For $900 some dollars I can buy a whole PC computer today that would outshine anything that they have up for sale, and I am talking about a whole computer, not just a motherboard. I was just wondering how many Amiga people out there didn't buy because they looked at the price and said "I can't afford that", and then after that giving up hope on getting a new modern day computer just gave up and went away, after all we all can't afford that much money just for a motherboard, it is just plain insane. Going to look at a raspberry pi, or a new nuc board, at least there price is reasonable and maybe I can do something with it, plus they are faster then anything the Amiga dealers are offering out there for a 3 times or more lower price.
Now I know some one is going to say "But the Amiga is a specialty computer, and there are so little of us that is why the price is so high".
Well all I have to say is "If the price was lower, like $900 some dollars, for a whole computer they just might have more buyers, and more people back in the new Amiga game".
What do you all think?
Welcome to a market of very very small quantities.
The hardware design I am dreamin gof currently has a US$900 CPU chip. (No, not what A_Eon said about PA Semi a while back, something else) If I would finish this idea into a product, it's simply not possible to sell it for $100 to end users. Raspberry Pi is not a good comparison, as it is not meant as a desktop computer with expansion slots etc. it's basically a $5 or $10 CPU chip, a PCB, and some connectors selling in much hither quantities. You're comparing Apples to tractors here. Not the same thing.
