We wanted to price it below $300, but were a bit nervous since Indiegogo/Kickstarter take about 10% including the payments system (Amazon/PayPal), so we're pricing it safe.

We'll certainly try to provide the best hardware we can at the price we can get it - who knows, maybe we can throw in an i3 processor or 128 GB SSD!

Also, we are pricing it below most of System76/ZaReason offerings - I think if you look at Dell/HP offerings at the same price range, they provide similar specs. But if we get the volume we need, we should be able to get much better hardware.