I think you are lagging slightly behind current events, maybe :-)
The machine in question is is the AmigaOne X1000. All we know for sure is that it has a dual core PPC processor, possibly 64-bit (or 32-bit/PAE) as inferred from the presence of 4 DDR slots, 2 PCIe 16x slots (both run at half speed if each slot are populated), an XMOS "custom" chip (some sort of event-driven IO processor by the sound of it) and associated expansion slot and designed to run AmigaOS 4.x.
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for me, whether or not the machine ever exists or is seen "in the wild", it's a FAIL at the point where it is PPC. Unless of course Motorola has invented a 4 core 3.0+ GigaHertz chip that no one on Earth has ever seen.
Sorry guys. I know this ruffles all sorts of feathers and pisses off the fanboys, but even the linux guys know that the x86 chip (whether intel, amd, or whatever) is where it's at. Hell, even Apple knows. Seems the only ones who don't are the religious faithful holding on desperately to 10 year decaying technology.
Really want to impress me?
Want to sell machines to people (aside from the devout fanboys)?
Pull an Apple out of your hat and re-core AmigaOS around a Linux/BSD distro... EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO RUN IT ON CLOSED HARDWARE like Apple tries to do with their systems.
Sure, there are hackintoshes. I own one (Vostro A90 netbook), but Amiga could easily resolve that just like Apple did when they got rid of Atom processor support in 10.6.2.
Wayne
