CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000

[persia]

Dragon's Den

I *love* this thread! It's somewhere between a reality TV show where these guys pitch dumb business ideas and a show where some guy makes a fool of himself in front of a hidden camera.

Ah well, didn't Frank join CUSA in some way? This must be one of his pranks and these guys are just lauging their eyes out ;-)

[dreamcast270mhz]

This is amusing, to say the least. Now at least the A1 series look like a bargain compared to this hobknocking rubbish.

[commodorejohn]

Yep. For as much as they've been trying to convince the Amiga community that this is The Future Of Commodore (while all the time restating that the Amiga community totally isn't their target market, therefore all objections are totally invalid,) all they've really been accomplishing is making people wonder if custom boards are really that overpriced...

('Course, I still think so, but I'll at the very least concede that $800-1000 for custom hardware compares favorably with $800-1000 for utterly vanilla Atom/i7 boards.)

[CritAnime]

Well lets face it, the Cray CX1 cost $25K back in 2008.

If I had the choice I know what I would buy. And here is a hint, it wouldn't be CUSA. :lol:

@mousehouse
Hell yeah it's like some reality TV show. But it's one that I can actually stand to watch. The crazy from CUSA just keeps getting more crazy.

"Lets sell replica C64's. Now lets take cheap Chinese computers and rebadge them and call the VIC. Now lets try and conquer the professional market with our range of expensive tat Amiga's. While also thinking how we can squeeze more out of these all-in-one keyboard computers. Oh look it's Paris Hilton doing a tap dancing lesson in my front garden with a unicorn and a clown!"

[vox]

Yep. For as much as they've been trying to convince the Amiga community that this is The Future Of Commodore (while all the time restating that the Amiga community totally isn't their target market, therefore all objections are totally invalid,) all they've really been accomplishing is making people wonder if custom boards are really that overpriced...

('Course, I still think so, but I'll at the very least concede that $800-1000 for custom hardware compares favorably with $800-1000 for utterly vanilla Atom/i7 boards.)

Well, since their commodoreamiga.org board has started, its cleary visible its some of the Amiga (and C64) fans that is their user base, and even there its clearly visible at this announcement stage, they dislike the new "high budget policy"

If future is just exploitation of the past and the present, its better to have no future.

But thanks to people that develop Minimig, Natami, MorphOS, AROS and AmigaOS 4 there is some blink of the past it new age

[Blitter]

Oh my lord.  The most expensive case I could find (when you throw a Thermaltake PSU in with the deal) was right about that but it has a 10" display built in to it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119127

This is the one that is listed at 999.99.  It is now sold out... amazingly enough.

Edit: Well hell never mind... that is from all the way back in 2007.  LOL.  I just did a search for $1000 pc case and that was the only one I found that had multiple listings.

Edit 2: http://www.myshopping.com.au/PT--67_Computer_Cases__fs_p5_e__  This place has a list of $1000+ pc cases, Australian dollars.  I don't remember the thermaltake level 10 being that expensive, but I could be remembering wrong.

[Tripitaka]

I don't remember the thermaltake level 10 being that expensive, but I could be remembering wrong.

About $250-$280 for a level10 GT, more than double for the BMW level 10. But still not $1000....

...and at least the level 10 gives you something to show for it, it's a truly awesome case.

These are the official prices: http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?S=1341

[huronking]

Nevermind.

[tone007]

These are the official prices: http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?S=1341

Those are awesome looking cases, I hadn't found desktop machines very interesting to look at for a long while until seeing those.

[Tripitaka]

They sure are. When case prices go over $200, I for one expect to see something special for it, over $500 and I expect to see a freckin work of art. CUSA take note!

Hey, this thread has just given me an idea for another thread...
I'll post it later, I should be getting some work done right about now.

[Duce]

$1000 will buy you a fully phase changed cooled kit capable of running the CPU at constant sub zero temps.  Paying that much money for a "nice looking" case that isn't some form of exotic cooling system is just insane, and I've done my share of buying expensive cases from the likes of Mountain Mods.  I've got an older 2 mobo MM case that I love (Ascension Duality), but it was insanely expensive at even under 50% of what C-USA is claiming their cases will market for on these new Amiga's.

It better cook breakfast and open my mail for $1000, and for $25,000 for a full system, their staff should wash my cars every weekend as part of the deal.

[Tripitaka]

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product.aspx?c=1257&id=1481#Tab0

At about $345 this touchscreen plus the water cooled level 10 GTS will set you back just over $700, $300 more will buy you a storage draw, remote, cup holder, toaster, scented oil diffuser or whatever else you wish to pimp your case with.
CUSA are mad I tell you, maaaaaaddddd!
...and they ain't getting any cash off me!

[Tripitaka]

http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/toast.htm

...yes I did say toaster and this is the one I meant.

[vox]

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product.aspx?c=1257&id=1481#Tab0

At about $345 this touchscreen plus the water cooled level 10 GTS will set you back just over $700, $300 more will buy you a storage draw, remote, cup holder, toaster, scented oil diffuser or whatever else you wish to pimp your case with.
CUSA are mad I tell you, maaaaaaddddd!
...and they ain't getting any cash off me!

They will try to justify high price with best possible industrial and pro use components. While this alone is a tricky market to enter, we can just wait "few more weeks" when this road becomes official.

Best current CUSA user base can hope is that they will have the beloved emulation box in couple of next months for their C64x and VICs: Amigas will stay out of the commons man reach. What is also interesting as that such Pro budle would need pro software and that is something CommodoreOS will not provide: they will have to make some good bundle. Interesting test for CUSA, much heavier burden then ever before with less chance to succeed.

[Darrin]

C=USA have released another pic of a case.  Looks like for $25,000 it is only going to have 1 x 5.25" bay, 2 x full size 3.5" bays and 1 x half-height 3.5" bay!  Crazy!

http://www.bakesure.nl/foto/1354.jpg

There is a regulator for water-cooling the CPU on the front bottom left corner.

[Darrin]

http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/toast.htm

...yes I did say toaster and this is the one I meant.

LOL.  Someone here will install that!