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 --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support