Interview with Trevor Dickinson

[Daff]

The magazine Obligement publish today an interview with Trevor Dickinson, director of A-EON Technology. This interview focuses on Trevor himself but also on the coming AmigaOne X1000 and the A-EON company.

English version is here : http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwdickinson_en.php
French version is here : http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwdickinson.php

[mongo]

My estimate is the price for the standard A1-X1000 system will be in excess of 1500 euros.

I really can't see anyone buying one for that price.

[Gulliver]

I really hope they sell at least a dozen units before they flop. It will be nice retrogear in the future, much like the The Access by Index Information is now (http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/access.html).

[Pyromania]

Nice interview!

[klx300r]

"The Amiga developer community is also very active and programs like Timberwolf (Firefox) and Open Office are currently being ported to AmigaOS 4"

Truly GREAT news..thanks Trevor:):banana:

[ElPolloDiabl]

1500 ouch!! I think I better rush my wallet to emergency.
They will probably get about 5 sales. I hope that covers their investment.

[KimmoK]

IMO, ~1500€ is ok price for a high end AOS system.
It will be one of the cheapest Amigas I have ever bought.
800€ for SAM440flex seems like a lot of money when compared to x1000...

(perhaps ok price also for the most advanced Power architecture system on desktop)

[Piru]

It will be one of the cheapest Amigas I have ever bought.

Interesting things these price comparisons. Especially since the HW prices don't stay static.

What kind of Amiga was more expensive really (lets talk about actual value of the money and relative HW prices of similar spec systems from the period)?

[ddniUK]

Ok since we are talking comparative value then we should use the average UK house price as a base.

Our constant is £1500 - Launch price in UK of A1000 and suggested launch price of X1000

Average UK house price in 1985 £31000
Average UK house price in 2010 £223000

Therefore an A1000 (£1500) was 4.8% of the average house value in 1985
Whereas an X1000 (£1500) will be 0.67% of the average house value in 2010

So an X1000 today is about 7.2x less expensive than an A1000 in 1985.


Clearly ignoring the technological gulf that the A1000 represented in 1985

[Piru]

Ok since we are talking comparative value then we should use the average UK house price as a base.

That's one way of measuring it. Not necessarily the one I was looking after. Computer value doesn't exactly follow the same pattern as house prices. ;-)

[Karlos]

Especially in the UK, where it is widely acknowledged that house prices have risen disproportionately in recent decades.

A different indicator of value is called for, I think.

[Karlos]

Anyway, a nice interview. That's quite a collection Trevor has :-o

[Debaser]

1500 ouch!! I think I better rush my wallet to emergency.
They will probably get about 5 sales. I hope that covers their investment.

Hmmmm I guess I will have to wait until its released and hear the reactions...then decide if divorce from my wife will be worth it. Haha

I must say the interview was nice and Trevor has certainly best intentions at heart. I wish them luck...its not like he took my 50 bucks.

[Karlos]

At the time of writing the kernel is up and running and the A1-X1000 can already boot up the AmigaOS 4.1 Update Workbench/install CD. This is the first time that an AmigaOS has run on a 64-bit Power CPU.

Running on a 64-bit processor is not quite the same thing as running 64-bit natively. I'm assuming that this is still a 32-bit build of the OS?

I wonder if a PAE kernel is in the pipeline to bridge the 32->64-bit gap? OS4 native apps that rely on MEMF_PRIVATE for most of their needs could presumably benefit from it.

[spihunter]

Wow! click on the pictures links for his harware collection! That's some serious Commodore porn!!!!