Amen! As much as I will never buy one over £500 myself I applaud their efforts. It's either new stuff like this or fake Amigas AKA x86 PCs + Amiga stickers slapped on them.
When finished and debugged on CPU grunt it will flatten little used Apple machines or SAM.
Progress for new more powerful OS4 compatible hardware is painful, this is not DELL or Microsoft R&D budgets.
When finished it could technically have Battlefield 2 conversion running @ 1080p in theory.......something no other OS4/MOS machine today can do.
As a big fan of MorphOS2.x and someone who constantly watches the progress of OS4, I look forward to seeing actual test results of OS4 on the X1000 which will prove (or fail to prove) your assertion that it will "flatten little used Apple machines".
If it succeeds in proving your assertion, I will applaud Trevor and his monumental achievement for creating something that runs OS4 faster than currently supported G4 Mac hardware can run MorphOS2.x. If it fails to meet your expectations, but still gets released for sale to the public, and not only to a handful of beta testers, I will still applaud Trevor for his efforts to fulfill his personal dream.
My suggestion is to not get your expectations too high for the X1000, so you won't be disappointed if it fails to meet all of those expectations, and only ends up being the best available option to run OS4 at the time it is released.