David Leimbach wrote:
i wonder if there's a complicated volume pricing thing going on where
these companies take orders, accumulating volume so they increase their
margins before they ship. I can't imagine why else they'd drag their
feet on it except that they want to get a good price as a reseller, and
don't want to be sitting on a lot of inventory.
Dave
It isn't just volume *pricing*. Common situation among even the most
'mainstream' and expensive of industrial SBC's for example.
All this stuff is manufactured in 'batch' mode, often not even monthly,
but only once or twice a *year*. No one can afford to configure the pcb
manufacturing, component tapes for the stuffing machinery, wave
soldering, testing et al for just a few units, and the small
surface-mount components used today are nearly impossible to
hand-assemble with any acceptable combination of affordable labor cost
and failure rate.
Anything else, and we'd be paying 'prototype' prices. Not a happy
ground, that one.
And there is why folks jump onto Gameboys, X-boxen, Set-Top-Boxes,
programmable firewall/routers and NAS storage boxen to make ARM'ish and
other 'computers'. Or buy a whole box of the VIA MB INTENDED for
el-cheapo Walmart Linboxen to make 1U servers that don't heat up the
rack or give a Massatwoshits if a fan fails.
High volume == affordable, even if not optimal.
The SheevaPlug is just not quite into that range....
Bill
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Lluís Batlle <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Mine I bougth some months ago, also from globalscale. They took more
than one month to ship it, but after their notice about the shipment,
it came in two days. It came in a nice packaging box, with all the
cables, and a CD with the source code.
2009/12/5 Francisco J Ballesteros <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
> ours is still on its way, from globalscale tech.
> They took at least 3 weeks to ship our order.
> Finally they did, but as I said, still on the way, despite
> choosing a good delivery. But that may be only when
> you buy from europe.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Don Bailey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> So, what is everyone's preferred plug vendor? Out of the three,
is there a
>> preference for people out there hacking on the Sheeva?
>> Thanks,
>> D
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