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Offline amiman99

Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« on: September 09, 2012, 12:43:04 AM »
Quote from: Digiman;707283
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.
The improved A1000 MB is already done, just needs production.
http://www.illuwatar.se/project_pages/gba1000/gba1000.htm
A500 KS 2.1, 1MB Chip, 68000
A600 KS 3.1, 2MB Chip, ACA630 32MB RAM
A1000 KS 1.3, 8MB RAM
A1200 KS 3.1, Blizzard IV 50MHz 64MB RAM
A2000 KS 2.1, 68030 25MHz, 6MB RAM
A3000 KS 3.1, 68030 25MHz, 16MB RAM
A4000 KS 3.0, 68040 25MHz, 16MB RAM
CDTV KS 3.1, 4MB RAM
CD32
(AROS BOX) Dead :(