AmigaONE X1000 Sale Ends 7th January 2014

[Iggy]

The price isn't the most ridiculous thing here. It is the fact that you are buying hardware that most probably Amiga OS4.1 will never fully support. And then, let's talk about the software...

Does the lack of a networking driver bug everyone else this much?

Now the "sale" price of over $2600...

[Iggy]

The Cyrus' CPU is much cheaper....

No, actually its still pretty expensive, the PA6T just costs more.
You don't see a cheaper e5500 cored cpu until you get to the 1.4GHz T1 cpus (like the two core T1022 or four core T1042).

And I doubt the Cyrus will be significantly cheaper.

Look to Acube for new designs that feature lower cost, more modest performing cpus.

You want cheap?
Buy a G5 Mac - like mine (and then of course you'll need another OS).

And I completely support Trevor and a-eon's enterprise.
You can't stay in business without charging a price that covers costs.

Another alternative (for lower cost), waiting until MorphOS has a 64bit branch on a more common ISA.

Or you could look for a used Samantha or Pegasos board (the other AmigaOnes, being a little flaky, I'd avoid).

[Iggy]

Humans aren't all that logical, so who cares?

That explains why, with a 2.3 GHz G5 Mac next to me, I still want an X2000 (or whatever it is called).

It probably will offer no performance, reliability, or expansion advantages - certainly no economic advantage (and I couldn't care less about OS4), so a big illogical WTF?! runs through my mind (and I still want one).