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<div>Luis,</div>
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<div>it is absolutely not my intention to hurt your feelings (I hope
you believe me).</div>
<div>But I'm convinced straight truth is always the best.</div>
<div>On the other hand pay attention to the fact, that my statements
are only personal view and specific mainly for the german
market.</div>
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<div>Our cube may be in exhibited in a museum of design, but it is a
mass-production-object.</div>
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<blockquote>The standard cube you can get for about 150 Euro (and
that's no bad price!), the RAM and HD aren't very interesting for most
customers. They make perhaps 50 Euros more, I'd say.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The GeForce is a standard card, not a very special. There
are others, more interesting ones. No Euros plus.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The Studio Display is dealed at about 75-120 Euro (problem
are the ADC and the permanently falling prices of new larger displays:
I can buy a 22" TFT with DVI for 180 Euros now)</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The SuperDrive used for 40 to 50 Euros.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The most important part is the Powerlogix Dual Proc.
surely.</blockquote>
<blockquote>May be, you could get 150-250 Euros from an enthusiast.
But when they aren't looking during ebay during the auction that's bad
luck for you.</blockquote>
<blockquote>- (Some month ago I looked for such or a similar card for
my second cube. Only very few are offered at all. >>But now that
interest has disappeared, I think the new Mini will be my next
wish!<< I could imagine that most of us have the feeling that
the times of the cube, the upgraded especially, are ending)
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<div>AND</div>
<div>I don't believe that a sale of "all-in-one" will bring
you just the sum of the added amounts: It will bring less. So selling
the parts one after the other might bring the most. (Not all at
once!)</div>
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<div>Finally:</div>
<div>I know, it sounds (reads!) terrible, especially as I'm convinced
your cube is running excellent as it is. Maybe, I'm wrong, I would
even prefer that</div>
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<div>Perhaps someone of us would buy it?</div>
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<div>Best regards you happy-unhappy man ;-)</div>
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<div>Stefan</div>
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