[News] Online Pegasos Sales are back!!! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 13-Jul-2004 02:56 GMT by JKD | 157 comments View flat View list |
BBRV announced on MorphZone that online ordering is back!
Morphzone Forums
Steve
BBRV announced on MorphZone that online ordering is back!
Morphzone Forums
Check out the store, follow the Store link on: PegasosPPC.com
Thanks,
Steve
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Posted by Neko on 13-Jul-2004 14:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Agima): Freescale are ordering boards in the long term. You're going to have so much
egg on your face in the coming months, I can guarantee it.
There is a Pegasos in nearly every Freescale office on the planet. Freescale
are giving them away to their customers to encourage them to develop for G4
and AltiVec. They are training their employees with our help, and we are
involved in pilot schemes in order to prove out the worth of the Pegasos and
ODW under many real-life environments.
Just watch and learn.. this is how you get a product into a large market.
Duping a bewildered customer-base with holiday prize draws and the promise of a
$2 t-shirt this is not!
There is a list of people who were promised a Pegasos board for demoscene
activity, and as soon as it's possible to fulfil that, they will get them!
That's the stark honest truth, there is no deadline or "maybe next week"
because I cannot be sure. We just started to sell Pegasos boards to Amiga
resellers again, because now we are starting to have the capacity (money-wise)
to build boards over and above the Freescale orders - the resellers really
wanted it, so we gave it to them.
Note that Freescale aren't able to produce boards at 1/5th of the cost; not
without the 4 years of development you usually put into these things. They could start now and they'd be finished about the time we finish the Pegasos 6!
They designed the Sandpoint and the PCI Mezzanine, and that product is going
out of the window now because it's old and boring (no modern peripherals..). It
also costs $4500 for half of what what we offer in a Pegasos for, what, $1400
configured?
Cost reduction is a future goal; mass production is a future goal. We can get
people to make them in batches of 300,000 if we can afford to stump up the
cash for the parts and production cost in advance, at which point a Pegasos
becomes truly throw-away in terms of price :)
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