[News] Pegasos II price! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Jun-2003 15:17 GMT by Alkis Tsapanidis (Edited on 2003-06-04 17:45:37 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 154 comments View flat View list |
The Pegasos II price has now been announced.
The options are the following: G3 at 299 and G4 at 499 (Tax excl.).
Additionally there's the option to exchange the Pegasos1 with a
Pegasos 2 with a G4 at the expense of 200E or buy the G4 card alone
at the same price.
More info at: MorphOS-News.de
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Posted by Neko on 04-Jun-2003 18:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Anonymous): > I'm sure they loose money if the price is like that. it's just a trick to
> make people buy Atari instead of Amiga. They will make price higher as soon
> as they it's okay for them."
Absolutely sod all to do with it.
The Pegasos I cost something silly like $150 to make (including the G3
processor, which is a tiny part of the cost of the machine), but it was ALWAYS
to be sold for $499, in order to subsidise the LONG development time (something
like 2-3 years)
Eventually it was worked out that given the cost of April (allegedly $180 or so
for the first set, PER APRIL CHIPSET FIX), and the time and UPS/FedEx shipping
costs bring old boards back, Genesi pretty much broke even.
The Pegasos II is *MUCH* cheaper to produce, thankfully. This means we can
sell boards for $299 (G3 only) instead of $499, and reserve that high price
point for G4 boards.
The G4 boards are more expensive because - hey - G4 procs are more expensive,
and the G4 processor board may well be slightly more complex (perhaps Gerald
whacked 2MB of L3 cache on there while we weren't looking? *cough* :)
It may also be the case that the G4 boards will be slightly subsidising the
G3 boards. But that's not a fact, I'm guessing :)
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