You are so right!Phawx said:Sweet, three pages of non-news. Craig should have been a magician. His misdirection skills are uncanny.
I believe these are high quality metal molds that lasts much longer then 10'000 units. I think that's what they've said. 10'000 units is just the minimum order, big companies have minimum orders because it's not worth it for them to do small orders.jumpman said:Yeah, the plan is to ship the new revision, and the factory be prepared to turn out 4000 ASAP before the holiday! I have not seen any confirmation that those revision 3 test cases have actually shipped! Maybe I missed it? As far as the extra cases go, Craig said the current moulds are only good for about 10,000 units, before the mould goes bad! So any number above that will have to have a new mould produced. Which should be fairly easy, considering they can just match it to the current one! So hopefully it won't take forever to produce more cases. It should be done well before everything else is done for batch number 2!
I believe it was Craig who compared these molds to the cheaper ones that only lasts about 10'000 times and people just got confused with the whole 10'000 minimum order.mali said:Nah. 10000 is just the minimum you have to order. The moulds breaking after 10000 pieces is new to me.jumpman said:As far as the extra cases go, Craig said the current moulds are only good for about 10,000 units, before the mould goes bad! So any number above that will have to have a new mould produced. Which should be fairly easy, considering they can just match it to the current one! So hopefully it won't take forever to produce more cases. It should be done well before everything else is done for batch number 2!
Something to that effect was said, I remember it as well. What I don't remember, now that I'm thinking on it, is if it was said "these moulds only last about 10'000 runs" or "We got the good moulds because standard moulds only last for 10'000" or something like that.mali said:Nah. 10000 is just the minimum you have to order. The moulds breaking after 10000 pieces is new to me.
You won't get any news by asking right now. We are waiting for Fatih, afaik. ED's twitter account and the official blog is the place to look at right now.Phawx said:Sweet, three pages of non-news. Craig should have been a magician. His misdirection skills are uncanny.
There were discussions, but it had something todo with Aluminum vs. steel IIRC. From the pics these moulds clearly look like steel.WizardStan said:Something to that effect was said, I remember it as well. What I don't remember, now that I'm thinking on it, is if it was said "these moulds only last about 10'000 runs" or "We got the good moulds because standard moulds only last for 10'000" or something like that.
craigix said:We spoke to the factory, they confirmed the moulds are finished and they are shipping final samples this weekend.
Hey, it was sayed they are already on its way to MWeston and only a little bit delayed because of the bad weather. (?) Are we continuing the "next week" game forever and ever now?craigix said:We spoke to the factory, they confirmed the moulds are finished and they are shipping final samples this weekend.
If the green light isn't given by the 3rd, there is no way they can make 4000 before Chinese New Year, unfortunately. Unless the factory runs on weekends as well, in which case they have until the 5th. I think, anyway.craigix said:We spoke to the factory, they confirmed the moulds are finished and they are shipping final samples this weekend.
I think the bigger issue right now is thses cases being OK, and they don't have the time get any produced before the holiday. That will be an even bigger kick in the balls! If there shipping this weekend, it's going to be damn close(right in line with my ealier estimates). Maybe a few hundred, maybe even a thousand can get produced, but all 4000? I really don't know if that will happen. This is a chance for the factory to step up, and show that they can get the job done, finally! Although I wouldn't place any bets on that happening, but good luck to us all! <_<Paradox said:there's going to be such a huge shitstorm if these cases are still not perfect and we need more tweaks D:
Oh, lets wait until the chinese interpreter, friend of Fatih, do confirm us that it's correct.craigix said:We spoke to the factory, they confirmed the moulds are finished and they are shipping final samples this weekend.
Yeah Fusion, the 15th was way old news! But based on that, can we really say they are finally shipping this weekend? I dont know!mali said:@Fusion
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You are frequenting two boards, it can't be that you missed the latest progress, can it?