> if his investment so far has been $100,000 to $200,000 US dollars,
> I doubt he is charging enough to recoup all of that investment already

"Trevor said that it cost over US$400,000 to develop the X1000."
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36690&forum=2&start=80#685861

More info from Trevor's AmiWest 2012 presentation (direct link, Youtube):

"It's all a matter of scale. If I could build 10,000 units, the NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs would be 5 GBP (8 USD) a board, 8 USD a system. That's nothing. If you build 1000 units that's now 10 times. If you build 100 units that's now 10 times again. So, someone's got to eat that non-recurring engineering costs. On the X1000 I'm eating it, because I wanted to produce the system. On the next systems [...], we're building that into the price, assuming that we sell a certain number of units. And that will govern the price."