First ebay Minimig sells for £214 (305 EUR / $428 US)

[tonyyeb]

Not sure how many other people watched that auction with interest but it finally sold for £214.

[jimbo100]

Link?

[Colani1200]

here it is

Funny... after all those companies failed to deliver new Amigas in all these years, the users finally decided to build them on their own....

[alexh]

Considering the parts including import duties, postage etc. cost £180, and it took MANY hours to solder, I would consider this price quite disappointing.

If you charge £10/hour, it probably didn't cover costs :-(

[McVenco]

The seller has already put his second Minimig on Ebay. I wonder how soon there will be more people selling these babies, and how many different incarnations there will be.

Thusfar I've seen Dennis' original Minimig, abovementioned ones on Ebay, the mini-ITX version from that Swedish guy (sorry, forgot your name :-)), plus I've seen the empty boards from Nusim, and 2 other people whom I don't remember the names from (one with the white PCB, and the one who initially also would do a 10-piece production run)...

So, it seems that at least 6 people have all delivered more in just 2 months as a single person, than AInc. has delivered in 7 years. Go figure! :-)

[McVenco]

alexh wrote:

Considering the parts including import duties, postage etc. cost £180, and it took MANY hours to solder, I would consider this price quite disappointing.

I think you read it wrong somewhere. Seller has previously stated that the total hardware costs were 180 Euros, not pounds, so I don't think the selling price is that bad...

[amigadave]

Wow!  A bit higher than I had thought it would go for, but I am happy for the person who put it together.

Yes, how ironic that Amiga Inc. comes out with its lame announcement of a pending announcement (again), right on the heels of the community actually producing something real and tangible.  Yeah I know it is only a remake of an OCS A500, but it is just the beginning of something bigger and better.

I am hoping the Open Source and Amiga Communities will soon surpass anything that Amiga Inc. can come up with.  That will truly serve my sense of justice, after Amiga Inc. have left us with nothing for so many years, we can then do the same to them by making our own Next Generation Amigas via Maxi-Minimig version 5.0 (due out in the first quarter of 2010).

[Plaz]

stated that the total hardware costs were 180 Euros, not pounds,

That sounds about right. My rough estimate on cost for my minimig is at about $150-$170US. So if you can sell it for a $200 profit after all your costs, and factoring in maybe 10 hours of work for an experienced person... The $$ per hour doesn't look too bad. Unfortunately once more complete systems are made, that profit margin is bound to drop. First to market in this case will have a tidy profit I think.


Plaz

[alexh]

amigadave wrote:
making our own Next Generation Amigas via Maxi-Minimig version 5.0 (due out in the first quarter of 2010).

Bagzie calling it "MegaMig". A MiniMig with a 100MHz 68060, 128Mbytes of SDRAM, 16-bit AHI compatible audio and 24-bit RTG graphics.

[amigadave]

alexh wrote:

amigadave wrote:
making our own Next Generation Amigas via Maxi-Minimig version 5.0 (due out in the first quarter of 2010).

Bagzie calling it "MegaMig". A MiniMig with a 100MHz 68060, 128Mbytes of SDRAM, 16-bit AHI compatible audio and 24-bit RTG graphics.

Sounds great to me, when and where can I buy one?

Seriously, I hope that just such a design is completed in the not too distant future.  It must also have ECS minimum, 15kHz & 31 kHz, and preferably, AGA.  Then we can start working on AAA on our own with full backward compatibility for MegaMig-II.

[McVenco]

amigadave wrote:

Then we can start working on AAA on our own with full backward compatibility for MegaMig-II.

Shouldn't we call it a MiniNyx then?  :-D

[amazing]

15 and 31 khz is already possible by a jumper

[alexh]

amazing wrote:
15 and 31 khz is already possible by a jumper

He means 50 and 60Hz.

McVenco wrote:
Shouldn't we call it a MiniNyx then?  :-D

D'oh, I should have thought of that!

[sweetlilmre]

Can't tell you how close I am to hitting 'buy it now' on the 2nd auction...

Fast cars or Amiga gear, its gonna cost ya...
 :-D

-(e)

[McVenco]

sweetlilmre wrote:

Can't tell you how close I am to hitting 'buy it now' on the 2nd auction...

Do it! Do it! Do it! :lol: