On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Vaughan Pratt wrote: > It occurs to me to also mention cost: a JUMPtec DIMM PC module is > $420 when purchased from EMJ (no idea what their markup is), whereas > a 233 MHz CardPC from Cellular Computing is I believe less than twice > than that. This makes the JUMPtec solution prohibitively expensive. > A volume purchase could of course change this ratio. Hmm not quite. Or at least if you have different information then the following I would LOVE to hear about it as I am purchasing based on this. When I called EMJ for prices thie quoted me the following: Ok, the EMJ Pentiums are the Cell computing models and I was told that the P166 was either on limited availability or about to go on it becuase it was on thw way out. Oh yeah the pentium systems were all without ram. So the price they quoted me for a 16MB dim was $84 and $164 for a 64 MB dim. EMJ P200MHZ EMJ P166MHZ --------------------------------------------- 1-24 $936 $874 25-49 $902 $842 50-99 $881 $822 100+ $851 $794 JUMPtec 486 --------------------------------------------- 1-24 $417 25-99 $401 100-199 $391 200+ $382 Since both systems require you make or buy some fashion of breakout board I am not considering the added cost there, but if you do not need sound or too much speed then the JUMPtec option still seems to be less then half the cost of the CELL computing path and an ok way to get started on a wearable. Ok. Now for the disclamer. IBesides the fact that this was all just my two cents I may be biased on this as I am in the process of switching my wearable from a biscut to a JUMPtec board. -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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