Re: Apple IIGS Laptop Project announces bare-bones pricing

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Apr 7, 9:12 pm, Mike Spurgeon <m...@spurgeon.net> wrote:
> On 4/7/2010 8:52 PM, Chuck Morris wrote:
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> > magnusfalkirk wrote:
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> >> I'd love to have one. I don't suppose there would be any kind of
> >> discount for providing your own GS ROM 01 motherboard? My biggest
> >> problem with the price, beyond justifying it to myself in the first
> >> place, would be justifying it to my wife. For that same sort of price
> >> I could get her a well equipped MacBook.
>
> >> Dean
>
> > Hmmm ... I've got 2 spare ROM1 motherboards, so if they provided a
> > discount for providing your own, I wonder if it would be flexible
> > enough to allow for multiple discounts if you provide multiple
> > boards.  If the discount per motherboard was (for example) $50 per
> > board, I'd only need to find another 10 motherboards to bring the cost
> > down to a level that wouldn't leave me with severe sticker shock (and
> > a murderous spouse).  Well, at least it would lessen the sticker shock
> > - no discount would likely solve the murderous spouse problem.  ;)
>
> I see the smiley, but why would you think they need more of one of the
> less expensive parts?

It seems to me the discount for providing your own GS mainboard should
be about $1.25.

It's pretty clear that the expense comes from the custom parts and
crapload of time spent making it work. A GS mainboard is the least of
your problems in making something like this.

-Warr