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Topic: Color of Chumby 8

I’ve seen black, red, and white Chumby 8 devices, but when I go to order one, I don't see a color choice. Am I missing that? Or is there just one color?

Mark

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

I think the only one we're shipping initially is black.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

The e-mail I received from ChumbyCo. said at the bottom:

          * Available to order in red April 5th

So black is it until then.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Thanks!

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Id really like one completely encased in Octy Blue (TM) smile Only black components being the ports smile

I think it be rather stylish in Red or Blue in the kitchen.. Gasp we finally have a touch computer for the kitchen... (Yes i miss the Audrey (wikipedia audrey by palm/3com)

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Not sure why color is such a big deal. If you want a different color, tear it apart and paint it. It is good fun.

Tar, feathers, congress. Some assembly required.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Some of us dont want to void the warranty by trying to open it and paint it.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

And some of us have reached the age where we have realised that we just hate painting. Anything.
We have discovered that our expectations outreach our skills.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

The issue of color is one of inventory management.  As we discovered with the Classic, which came in several color combinations, it's *very* tough to predict demand - we often ended up selling out or some colors and had a lot of other colors piled up - each one of the those tied up valuable capital that is hard to recover.

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Would some sort of survey/preorder thing work to at least  mitigate the demand to get a sense of what would be popular and what wouldnt be..  Ask people on the forums what colors they are interested in, perhaps even showing a mockup of the color scheme, and then offer a preorder. when so many units are requested, fufill the order but produce a few extra according to the results of the survey on which colors were in demand..

11 Reply by Materdaddy (edited by Materdaddy 2011-05-11 13:39:31)

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

What's wrong w/ skinning it?  Less capital to have tied up in a stock of colors.

EDIT:

Link from the chumby site, for a few more bucks, you can have almost any color/pattern/design you want for your chumby 1 or your chumby 8:

http://www.skinit.com/search.php?global … ATE=comjct

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Re: Color of Chumby 8

Skins usually look cheap and tawdry. At least for trying to wrap a solid color..
As an aside.. the only way to see what a skin should look like is to go in and manually create a custom skin and you can see the basic template.... there really needs to be better examples or actual product wrapped in vinyl or wtf they are using...