Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?

[jorkany]

Well Q2 2011 is over with...nobody got their A-eon AmigaOne X1000 beta test board?

Nobody?

I guess A-eon will come up with a new schedule soon! I wonder if it will be Q3 2011 or if they will just go for the end of the year?

[jorkany]

Wow, here we are the middle of Summer 2011!

So any X1000 beta testers out there got their boards yet? If so I hope you're familiar with Linux because going by the latest released pictures that's what you're going to be running - if you ever get a board for your 700+ euros, that is.

http://imageshack.us/f/64/foto2uqb.jpg/

Funny how those pesky board revision numbers just keep going up, isn't it? Also nice that A-eon has decided to add a fan. Hey - maybe that's the ".1" in "Revsion 2.1"!

[jorkany]

Nobody?

Next month it will have been a year since A-eon accepted beta test money, and six months since A-eon claimed to have begun production. Maybe I should be asking:

Has anybody gotten their money back?

[jorkany]

Maybe they are being too ambitious? Why not just release the motherboards and forget about the complete package.

Well, they're using a stock case that's been available for a couple of years already, along with other stock components you can order from just about any PC components retailer. The "complete package" isn't the part that would be holding them up.

The board itself is being built by a reputable company and appears to be pretty much finished, except now it's Revision 2.1 when it was Revision 2.0 just a couple of months ago so not sure how far that delayed things. A-eon has announced twice so far that they're going into production (March 18 and again June 7) so it seems like the board is ready to roll.

The big delay seems to be the software.

[jorkany]

Happy September everybody!

Well not only has it been about a year since A-eon started taking money for the X1000 beta, it's also a month since the beta units were supposedly shipped. So it's time to ask again:

Any beta testers get your boards yet?

[jorkany]

on a polish portal exec.pl a user has been allowed to post fotos of setup he received:
http://www.exec.pl/forum/posts/list/1096.page
so i guess they do deliver now.

Thanks for the info! I don't read Polish, but I see he also has the case - I assume he bought that separately?

[jorkany]

From a day-old post on amigans:

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4942&forum=21

I am a member of the new A1-X1000 Beta test team, and eagerly await the shipment of my newest Amiga machine.

Errr, I thought the beta test machines had already shipped a couple of months ago?

Well hopefully the real beta testing can be done before the Special Edition units ship at the end of the year. After all the X1000 beta test was supposed to be very thorough and complete! Still not sure how they will beta test "X" though since none of those components are supported yet in OS4. Good luck guys!
:banana:

[jorkany]

@jorkany

Maybe the "Special Edition" is special because it's still a beta test?

lol

Kids who ride the "short bus" are special, because all kids are special!

[jorkany]

Hello X1000 First Contact pre-orderers!

How are you enjoying your new systems?
I assume you've gotten them by now.