>I am asking everyone that is interested to email
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], and let them know that you would be much more
>likely to buy a G3 upgrade for your 2400 if they were priced at something
>reasonable, say $500? I don't care whether they start selling the
>upgrades themselves again, or whether they lower the OEM cost. In fact,
>email [EMAIL PROTECTED], too, and let them know that they shouldn't
>throw away their engineering time already invested in 2400 upgrades.
>
>Maybe I'm being overly hopeful, but if Vimage or Newer sees the demand
>they _could_ get, they just might respond. Am I crazy?
VimageUSA is out of the retail and wholesale business....though they
were looking to do OEM deals. The mother company, Interware Japan,
is the primary source for the G3/320 and G3/400 copper cards, and the
source from which MCE is trying to get cards.
Newer never delivered on their copper card and given their financial
problems and current direction I wouldn't expect them to put any
dollars toward G3/240 card production. Small market, high production
and support/warranty cost, etc....probably why the few cards that get
produced are targeted to Japanese owners.
Some of our subscribers residing in Japan might have some more
insight on why pricing is so high there, but I'm betting it's just
total cost/small market size.
Ralph Mawyer, Jr.
Associate Editor
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