jpeg wrote:does not look like much in there; these devices should be alot cheaper, a guy in th eother post mad a comparisson to xbox or playstation 8GB of ram and a faction of the price of the live.
The same can be said for any pro audio gear, but MPCs are notoriously overpriced if you only consider what's inside. It was suggest to me a few years ago that an MPC Studio contains something like $30 of parts (based on assumptions that they'll get discounted parts when buying in bulk). Actually it might have been $25.
I think it's unfair to compare these to a proper mass market device like an xbox, MPCs are ultimately very niche products and less price driven compared to a game console. Anything labelled 'professional' is instantly more expensive.
The board they've used (Radxa Rock2 SoM) is available in three configs, they used the 2GB RAM/16GB drive version, there was/is apparently a 4GB/32GB version. I say 'was/is' as it would appear even the 2GB board is discontinued, I can find no one selling this so I assume Akai probably had them made specially for them (if so, custom config was apparently an option). The original board seems to have sold for around $99 on Aliexpress, but big orders would see significant drops in that price.
But the Radxa site does seem dead, no news updates for 2 years, forums not accessible, dealer links dead or lead to discontinued listings.
http://wiki.radxa.com/Rock2/som