DM32 from Swiss Micros

[Jeff_Birt]

You can't compare relative pricing 40 years ago to today. You can't even compare pricing of two years ago to today. Over the past few years component pricing has risen 25% to more than 250% (if you can even get the parts). A rule of thumb for product pricing is to take component pricing and multiply by 3. By the time you account for parts, production, clerical and overhead this works out to be a fair pricing estimate.

For all of you complaining about the pricing remember SM is selling niche, low volume, products. They are also not a Chinese knock off factory.