@HMK
I Agrea on that the most effective way to bring the cost down, is to get the beast produced in quantiy.

I think that, it's not the best buisness model makeking lowend Amigas, the money safed by using cheaper coponents is quickly eaten by development cost and higher manufactoring cost.

The components may be cheap, but i dont think the machine will be, unless new markets can be found for a the low cost ppc computer.

Also, a powerful dual ppc amiga, well I dont think It will nessesary to update such a beast for some time!

High end machines would be nice, but a very low cost, simple, low-power consumer unit would be much nicer. In order to make production of G5s plausible, we need a much larger user-base overall: imagine how many A1200s sold compared to A4000s.

We have working hardware - if the MA1 gets manufactured in any real numbers, the community will need better and more uptodate software. Those $s spent on hardware projects could finance some major ports, perhaps.

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