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- From: dcinege@superlink.net (Dave Cinege)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Pentium Bridgeboard.....Would you buy one?
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 21:23:28 GMT
- Organization: SuperNet Inc. (908) 828-8988
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- In <4hrqj1$6d6@blackice.winternet.com>, scottdo@winternet.com (Scott Olson) writes:
- >
- > Ouch. Yeah, I know all about the fairly small market and all that,
- >but still, my wallet says ouch. I think there's some interest, as
- >evidenced by the interest last summer in a proposed 486DX4 board that was
- >supposedly going into beta but sank below the waves without a trace.
- > To be honest, I'd think about it. Whether I'd buy or not would
- >depend a lot on the final price, and on things like is that VGA
- >accelerated, internal VL/PCI bus or is it plain-vanilla VGA. With the
- >price of RAM falling like a rock at the moment, that will add less to the
- >final cost in the end than now, and Pentium prices will only go down.
- > If you can get the retail cost, with the 16m of RAM and 2 megs of VGA
- >RAM, down around $800, I think you'll be able to sell them. $1500 is a
- >bit high, though, I think.
-
- Hah! If you noticed the differenece between the plain board, and the one
- with CPU and ram is $500.
- Thats $300 for 16mb, and $200 for the CPU. Thats about dealer price plus
- enough to pay for shipping. For an $800 retail that would leave me $300 for
- the board, my profit, and a dealers profit. Hate to break this news to you
- but the board iself will cost WAY over $300 just to produce. This is not
- Taiwan and I am not making 10,000 boards at a time. There is no way in
- hell I can make them for the same price as an over seas mother board.
-
- Maybe $800 with no CPU and ram. But with CPU and ram, unless Intel decides
- to give me some free, is not going to happen.
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