First Contact : AmigaOne X1000 Limited Edition

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About the same price as my first 486 before I added the £500 the printer cost me.

And these days about as useful.

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What an appropriate name: First Contact.  'cause you sure are gonna get probed on this one.

Let's see...

1gb RAM = $13.99

ATI Radeon 4650 = $39.99 or $14.99 with rebate

500GB HD = $49.99

CD/DVD Burner = $16.99

Network card = $6.99

Sound card = $24.99

Case = $99.99

Power Supply = $14.99

A little googling shows that engineering samples (purchases of 1-2) PA6T CPUs (you know, the "secret" processor we were assured wasn't at the core of this machine) ran around $700 in 2008 or so.

...and we come up with...

$968, plus let's say $25 for shipping for a grand total of...

$993

So the retail cost of the motherboard is $1689.56.

Well played, Aeon.