On 12/6/05, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Because the price for an add on card is about the double/tripple
> from the additional price we'd pay for a dual link on board.
> I have the impression that there is a demand for dual link,
> that's why i'm promoting it.

That brings up another point.  Many users would want various versions
of OGD, where different options are added or not.  For instance, we
may have a video-in on OGD, but since OGA won't have that, then OGD
can go without it.

The problem here is that under certain circumstances, addition of a
few dollars in parts can cost $100.  This may sound extreme, and it is
just a rough guess on my part, but if out of an order of 100 boards,
only one gets the video-in part added, then one board has to be pulled
and have the other parts added, or the assembly line would have to be
reconfigured to add those extra parts to only one board from the
beginning, which would make it REALLY prohibitive.  And then there's
testing (and the fact that we're not set up for testing yet), etc.

On the other side, we may not be offering stripped down versions. 
Some people won't want the RAM on it, but unless the demand for that
were really high, there wouldn't be any meaningful cost savings.

Having different models has its challenges, but "throwing it all on
there" is undesirable too.

What do we do about this?  :)

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