[iyonix-support] Re: [SPAM] iyonix 2 or not

In message <48E008B9.90507@xxxxxxxxxx>
          John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Having failed to get logged into drobe to respond to something there I 
>thought I'd make a couple of comments here.
>
>Iyonix 2: This would have been rather a nice machine.. dual core cpu etc 
>.. absorbed many months of my design time. Then came the crunch 
>question.. could we make it at a price people would pay, and would 
>enough ACTUALLY pay that price.. rumours have suggested a build cost to 
>a first batch of 10 to 30 machines of between 50 and 100k .. probably 
>not unreasonable at commercial rates, considering the CPU had just under 
>1500 connections on it and itself would have cost over £100!.. that 
>would mean that sales of several hundred units would be needed at 
>similar costs to the current (almost) standard iyonix.
>
>Would several hundred of you or others actually commit to this.. or 
>would we be left thoroughly out of pocket?

The first batch price of between ukp 3300 to 5000 would be a bit steep
for me to justify.

I paid around Eur 2400 for my Iyonix in December of 2002. Something
around that price I  would be prepared to buy as long as there was a
significant increase in performance (at least two times).

Support for dual or triple monitors whether via Geminus or the OS would
be very important to me. 
 
Regards
Stan 

-- 
Stan Williams &
Damae Jannette Jongkind
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