My quote from last year for 10k 4ch RF15s was $390.27 each with a min purchase of 10. Lead time for stock values was 6 weeks.
More importantly I misspoke, P&G will go up to 20k, but allegedly refused to go higher.
I've been seriously thinking about picking up the Airport Extreme Base Station since my Macbook supports wireless N which is supposed to have much better range and speed compared with G based networks. The iPad also supports wireless 'N' and should get that same better range the base station. If you go through the Education store you can get $10 off. Not a cheap solution but most around here have claimed that Apple makes excellent routers.
It'd certainly make working on them a hell of a lot easier. Could you imagine trying to service the Ayre? It looks damn near impossible to remove the "modules" not to mention just getting visual access to see if a part went poof.
They won't do any higher than 15k, I spoke with the US distributor about this last year when researching stuff for the T2 project.
[edit]And I can't help but feeling that the Ayre is a colossal waste of raw materials. I understand doing a one-off like Kevin's T2 out of a single block but for a commercial products where you end up removing 75% of the material... seems like pissing money down the drain with no benefit.
Really? I'll check with my source but I swear they were under $500 last I checked (2ch going for $250) especially if bought in quantity. I'm not "in" for this project but I'll help source parts if I can.
His hope/plan was to be able to use the wifi model and tether it to his phone for mobile/3G access. I have to say, it's a great plan and it's damn impressive if he already got it to work.
Allegedly much finer adjustment (1.2dB vs. 2dB) but that won't mean much if its max attenuation is really only -40dB. Most folks have issues with the first 20dB of adjustment on typical steppers which is accomplished in the first 5 steps.
If the specs are right I think it'd probably suck - 1.2db/step x 33steps = max attenuation of 40dB. It might be worth buying just the switch though and populating it yourself which Craig could easily do.
Food for thought - I wonder if all the people buying the 16GB WIFI models on Ebay for $600+ are international folks? I also love that there are folks on Craigslist already trying to get $900 for the 32GB version.
They got the right earpiece spot on on mine, but the left has yet to fit right and causes pain. So I got a second set of impressions done and I hope that they get it right this time.
This is certainly an interesting development but I'm waiting for a major institution to adopt the iPad as the default textbook or something along those lines. I'm beginning to think the biggest impediment to the iPad's success may be Apple's ability to make them fast enough...