AmigaONE X1000 Sale Ends 7th January 2014

[utri007]

Poor people should calculate price to their hobbyes.

Nobody has a hobby wich would require 6 ps4 gameconsoles, ipads or whatever.

[utri007]

X1000 is sure expensive, there is no logical reason to buy one. But I think that is stupid / unmature say it is idiotic to buy one or something else offensive. I don't see any reason to compare it to any other computer, as it is a hobby machine. Amiga OS4 is hobby OS and every other amigish OS is also, some more that other and some different way than others.

I could have much more stupid hobby, like buying old cars or furnitures They would require more money and wich is most important, more room.

I could buy one, but I woun't at least not before there is full driver support to it. My nerves wouldn't stand to waiting.

[utri007]

I'm pretty sure they could find a volunteer or two or five to port it to arm or x86 or do it through a bounty system, costing them zero.

If they ported to x86, someone would just need to write drivers for very common pci net and sound cards, and a few good graphics chipsets as was done with aros... Then any x86 with appropriate add on cards could run it. Zero engineering costs other than the initial port and writing some drivers for common
add in net, sound cards and video cards.

Anyhow never going to happen, so I'm happy there is AROS.

Just stop, Please. x86/arm is not a possible nor viable. You simply don't know what you are taking about.  "zero angineering costs"

It is perfectly possible to manufacture cheap (30-50€) PPC mobo, it would just require big quantity like 10-20 000 boards. Typical life cycle of x86 mobo is short, typically they run just one batch of them.

Luckily you can choose Aros to your hobby OS.

[utri007]

Yes who will do the run and take the financial risk for such a large PPC batch?

That is good question and exactly my point

[utri007]

Propably not. I assume that Varisys makes the most profit from it. Nice little extra business for them propably (and for Hyperion).

Did Trevor said that he actually pays every X1000 he sell? So no profit? Was it in Trevor's blog?

[utri007]

he makes certainly some profit. But most is certainly for Varisys. But we will never know. Anyway too expensive. But as I already wrote... its a hobby. So if people really need it and can afford to buy they shall buy it. It is not interesting to me personally.

You are right

Do not ever criticize another person's hobby or costs of it.

My friend has a hobby, he bought a several old and ugly Opel cars and has spend tens of thousands to them. Amount of room, time and money they require it is impossible to understand. But I would ever say that he is an idiot or that he could had bought better car with better performance with that money.