> > > We certainly don't want a lot of switches on the card. > > > > Gee, why not? They are three dimensional! > > Because they are god damn expensive! > > If you have ever worked in hardware manufacturing > bussines, you know that adding a part that just costs > $0.01 will add up to $1 to $10 on the final product cost.
What are you building, a mars rover? With a 1000x markup, putting a $100 CPU into a computer would raise the price by $100,000. Even for products that are very high quality, very low volume, with lots of engineering overhead, and little competition, the markup is "only" about 5x. For higher volume products, the markup is *far* *far* less. While I wouldn't count on OGC selling in Wall-Mart quantities, it should easily sell in volumes far higher than the 5x markup products I'm thinking of. The markup had better be well under 2x or the price will make it unsellable. > It's not only that the part iteslf costs money, but its > handling, soldering and testing. For jumper pins, board stuffing, soldering and testing should be completely automated. It's been a long time since I worked in test, I don't know if they have automated testing of switches yet. Seems like you'd need a robotic hand to manipulate the switch. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
