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The X1000 will be > $2,225
« on: June 19, 2010, 05:18:26 PM »
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To the others that attended - was it me  or was the whole announcement thing badly organised? You could hardly  hear the bloke from A-eon and couldn't see him either unless you were  crammed at the front. At the very least he should have had a mic on,  and/or had everyone stand in a horseshoe shape so more people could see  him.

In terms of info, the price will be "north of £1,500" and  they couldn't/wouldn't tell us the make of the CPU. They said it was  likely the machine would be on sale before Xmas.
Here is the current exchange rate.

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=GBP;to=USD;amt=1500

So we know the X1000, presumably a whole system, will be more than $2,225. When the first X1000 announcements were made many people guessed it would be $3,000 or more. Since then the USD has strengthened vs the GBP, otherwise this would have been close to that $3,000 mark...
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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 05:24:53 PM »
Yeah, was following events on a few of our sister sites myself. That's certainly a fair old wedge, even for a complete system.
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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2010, 05:28:01 PM »
Hmmm Xmas is some time away... Another year passes.  2007 technology in 2011 is gonna look pretty dated.  Could it be we are waiting for everyday technology to beat in into insignificance.  Or is it that no-one has yet found a use for the "harpo" chip.  I wonder if somone can program it to speak Whale... I used to be excited now I'm getting disapointed.......
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2010, 06:42:06 PM »
"presumably a whole system, will be more than $2,225"

Begs the question what constitutes a whole system? In A1000 days, that would mean:

* A1000 (Keyboard and mouse)
* A 1084.
* Operating system

I don't think you will get a monitor in this new system. But I could be wrong. And I am a little taken back at the cost. Still interested. But after reading above thread and threads here; I do finally understand what 'troll' means. It's apparently any one who proceeds in conversation with reason and critical thinking about 'new generation' Amiga offerings. You're deemed negative, a troll, a Debbie the downer. I get it. Or someone who is just nuttier than Chinese chicken salad.
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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 06:46:44 PM »
Quite pricy, I hope the chassi will be custom made tho :)
Let's see what the future brings, I might pick one up when all OS4 issues and drivers are working nice on it :)
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 07:23:59 PM »
In which factory (which country) will it be manufactured?  Is that info available?
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2010, 07:32:07 PM »
OK, so the keyboard is made in China.  Foxconn?
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2010, 07:48:36 PM »
£1500+ ... um.. haha ? um... I guess I wish them luck selling 20 boards... but not to me...

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2010, 07:52:24 PM »
Oh. Another deadline, insane price, information still withheld.

This is much worse than even I imagined.
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2010, 08:01:32 PM »
Wonder why you post the price in US$ when it was given in Sterling, not all of us are Americans here, in this country we use Australian dollars, you don't see me converting all prices to AU$, do you.  The price is north of 1500 quid, what the street price is in New York, Brisbane or Timbuktu is not known...
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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2010, 08:07:03 PM »
Does that price include VAT?
Does that price include dealers cut or is that the price they'll be selling to the dealers?
 

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2010, 08:15:07 PM »
Quote from: Piru;565674
Does that price include VAT?
Does that price include dealers cut or is that the price they'll be selling to the dealers?

Frankly if it was 5000 dollars, some of you will pay. Some people are stupid enough to spend 60k dollars on a pair of speakers.

<2000 quid is a snip.

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2010, 08:16:17 PM »
Oh well, either they have taken a leaf out of Apple's ridiculous pricing or this is a scam involving their inevitable bankruptcy lol. Do they regularly enact the mad hatter's tea party at corporate lunch???

They can quote the 1985 launch of the A1000 as much as they like but the truth is at the launch of the A1000 Apple cost 200% more and didn't even have colour. A useless pile of junk with a stolen [from Xerox IP] OS. And DOS...CGA doorstops only useful as chocs to park up passenger jets in my opinion again costing much more. In fact the only competition Amiga ever had was the 1985 ST with a price 40% lower and some of the features. And to top it all off A1000 did things no other computer money could buy, like play Fairlight sound samples or do 25FPS colour animations or even display 4000+ colours in 50% broadcast quality in a world where 16 on screen @ 320x200 was considered high end, and all in a beautiful multitasking kernal under a GUI.

Truth is x1000 is costing more than anything else and it doesn't have an advantage, no CPU advantage or GPU advantage or anything different that the OS has as a unique point. It's an also ran priced at the cost of TWO home built i7 super computers.

Such a shame as there really are alternatives that could work that require minimal re-coding of OS4 at 1/2 the price of top end Macs/PCs.....this isn't one of those technical solutions ;)

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2010, 08:36:16 PM »
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Frankly if it was 5000 dollars, some of you will pay. Some people are stupid enough to spend 60k dollars on a pair of speakers.

<2000 quid is a snip.

Shall I trade in my Capri :)

That's crazy..  Unless...

Did they use Monster Cables?  Those are worth the $2000 right there!!!
Monster Cables for my X1000!!   Yeay!!!
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Ok, that's too much for me, but I'm not the target audience...

Also, I doubt it's worse for Piru than he initially thought..  ;-)

But I do agree..  There are people who spend well over a thousand USD on a decked out SAM Amiga system, so I'd think they might be interested in this at twice the price.  It wasn't that long ago that people routinely spent that much on a computer.

And, this is also aimed at the "early adopter" market.  Those people will pay almost anything..  :hammer:

However, to be successful, you need enough of these "early adopters" so a second run might be cost effective.  With the competition on the low end (real old Amigas and minimigs, etc), I don't see them competing there.
OR..  You need enough of these early adopters/hardcore fans with disposable income and you keep the price high...

I don't see either happening..
Then again, I didn't think people would pay for shareware in the stores and know someone who made a lot of money doing that..  So, who knows..

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Re: The X1000 will be > $2,225
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2010, 08:55:16 PM »
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