Just found him at LinkedIn.
He participates on this forum?

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It's called niche market, where customers are not too price sensitive.

But the x1000 is a completely different story.
I just said that: IF Trevor had to convince a venture capitalist to put money on the venture, he would have to prove through a BP that all the investments made to build a custom machine from scratch, that's supposed to use an OS that's not yet complete with just a few SW for it would be able to generate enough revenue to pay itself assuming a nice margin and the cost of the money.

The investments seems huge to me (creating a new MOBO and stuff) and the potential customers are also limited to:
People
People who would buy technology
People who would buy a computer
People who would buy a desktop
People who would buy a desktop that's actually a modern version of the former Amiga
People who would pay ~2k pounds for it

When I used to work at HP R&D Labs (long time ago), prototype machines were listed at around 40.000/50.000 USD on the customs invoice.
So, 2k pounds actually sounds cheap for a machine built for that niche.

So, he's using his own money? WOW! :)
I'm happy he did it, and very excited but... That's really an extremely risky investment!

I did the same question at amiga.org:
1st of all: I'm an Amiga fan and I will buy the netbook when it cames out. Not x1000 (mainly due to the size of it. I don't have free space for another huge desktop).

I'm able to understand perfectly why x1000 costs too much. Developing a project like that from scratch really costs a lot of money.

Question is: Even for the Amigans market (which is almost nothing when compared to mainstream) few people would spend ~2.000 pounds for a x1000. So, how the hell you guys were able to convince a venture capitalist to FUND the production of x1000????