@swift240
I have always said this about the Amiga, what it comes to an Amiga the price is realy sky high, when it comes to a PC the price is reasly afordable to every one.
It would be, though, wouldn't it? Millions of people buy PCs, hundreds (at best) buy Amigas - not because they're more expensive, but because there's no software for it.
Basic economies of scale: PCs = high production run = low unit cost; Amigas = low production run (owing to low demand) = high unit cost.
Is it the case of well if they want it they will bloody well pay for it?
Or a case of ohhhhh well you see, we have to do this and then we gota do that, then we gota do the other thing then we gota................. so the price will by HIGH like it or not.
Do you really think the makers of low-volume hardware
want the computer to be this expensive?
Why not a affordable CPU that will not cost the earth that will handle an Amiga OS?
There already is one - the Sam 440ep. The X1000 isn't designed for this, it's designed to be the fastest computer possible at that time for people with enough cash. It's not for people who want "affordable" it's for people who want "the fastest for AmigaOS", and that meant at the time the PA6T. It's the same anywhere else - on a PC if you want the fastest you pay through the nose for it. Same on Mac. Same on everything.
Or will this be another excuse ohhh well we cant do that.
It's not an excuse. It's simply that the Amiga market is very small, and there's not much money in it. We're lucky that there's anybody
at all doing anything with it.
Sorry I dont belive a word of it, there is enough technology out there to do that.
But not the
right technology. Sure you can get cheap x86 CPUs but not cheap PPC CPUs (and that's an argument for another thread
)
And the price dont need to be sky high either. But its the same old thing if its Amiga then the price will be lovely and high if its a PC then it wont.
Yes, the price
does need to be high - at least if you don't want it to be a PC.
The Amiga is a niche market. It doesn't run 99.99% of software that people want to run, therefore most people don't want it. Demand is comparatively very low, therefore production runs also have to be very low.
If you're going to sell 10 million units in the first month like an Xbox or something, you can afford to produce 10 million components, but if you're only going to sell 50, you can only
produce 50. That raises the unit cost for each part massively.
To hell with this I am runnig in circles here, its cheaper to use my AMD and Amikit.
I agree with that! Using commodity (i.e. PC) hardware will naturally be much cheaper because the market is so much bigger.
But I wont get rid of my Amiga 1200 no matter what, so its either AMD and Amikit or pay a price thats so high I will need a jet plane to get to the top of it.
You're right about the A1200.
If you don't want to buy an AOS 4 machine then no-one's forcing you to.
The way you wrote your post you make it sound like the people making OS4 machines are choosing to make it expensive? Yet it's well documented that in the case of the X1000, Trevor is actually
subsidising the production!
Low volume hardware will always be much much more expensive than high volume commodity hardware, that's just the way of the world.
High prices are the sacrifice you make for being in a hobby that involves low production volumes - this isn't just for Amigas, it's for any hobby which involves low volume production runs.
The alternative is to do it the CUSA way - just take a cheap PC and stick an "Amiga" sticker on it and call it an Amiga.... but I'd much rather pay more and get something that is designed for and runs AmigaOS.
