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- From: MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: That 1000 pound sampling card
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.113216.8261@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Keywords: Rip off, 16 bit 44.1 kHz sampling, SCSI
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:32:16 GMT
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- In article <1jvbkhINNc7v@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) writes:
- >Do you think that maybe makers of Arc peripherals are ripping us off? I know
- >for a fact that buying a SCSI disk drive from a supplier of Arc SCSI cards can
- >be several hundred pounds more expensive than buying from a normal computer
- >peripheral supplier.
-
- Yes, they are. But let me explain *why*. Say you design a sampler for the PC.
- (you are running your own business). You may expect to sell N-thousand units.
- So you get the boards mass-produced, flow-soldered etc. You put an $M profit
- margin on and earn $MxN. Now consider you design it for the archimedes. You can
- expect to sell say N-hundred units. This means they cost more to make. Plus to
- make the same living as the PC person your markup needs to be 10x bigger.
-
- So Acorn manufacturers (in hardware at least) are making larger profit margins.
- But if they were making the same profit margins as PC manufacturers then they
- would be better off selling PC products. And then the support for the
- Archimedes disappears and then the Archimedes disappears.
-
- Mike.
-
- PS Disclaimer -- I am not currently working for anybody. But I'm open to offers
- 8-).
-
- PPS Have you noticed how Acorn have started using the name "Archimedes" in
- press releases to refer to the Ax000-series machines now? Nice name I
- think, don't know why they haven't used it before 8-).
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