Open Graphics Project to Announce Pre-Orders Apr 14, 2008, 13 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3695 reads)
"Open Graphics Project founder Timothy Miller recently noted on the project's mailing list that they are set to announce that their first hardware, the OGD1, is ready for pre-order. 'The OGD1 design has actually been finished for a couple of months now,' he began, explaining that they've been setting up a way to process pre-orders for the first 100 boards. The board will retail at $1,500, with a $100 discount offered for the first 100 pre-orders. 'These are pre-orders, not orders,' Timothy continued, 'that means the lead time is unpredictable. We don't have a stock. We will purchase a stock based on the number of pre-orders we get. Also, this means that if we never get a large enough number of pre-orders, we will be unable to fulfill them; all pre-orders would be canceled, and no one would be charged anything.' He then explained that though the OGD1 could function as a graphics card, it is instead offered as a competitively priced FPGA development kit, 'we need to make it clear what OGD1 is and why buying one is an important step for Free Software...'"
