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

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Funny how the osnews thread turned into a good ol' PC vs Amiga discussion like in the old days.  

Too bad a lot of narrow-minded persons still see computing in raw speed like some do for cars.   All I'd want is a new machine that is really fun to use and will last more than 3 years before I want to change it.  I just couldn't have the "Amiga-ish" feeling with all the PCs I got no matter the badass gfx card or CPUs.   I blamed myself for being a grown up with no more magic in his eyes but in fact its due to the boring hardware.  

I'll be the perfect customer for such a computer if the software available meets all my demands. (Common Net apps, office suite, 2D & 3D games, media (editing and burning)  The rest will be candy.

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I guess the price is the biggest worry for all of us.  I've been used to build myself a new PC every 2-3 years whitout spending more than $700 (no monitor) and it did the job.   If this new Amiga costs over $1000 but does everything we want for 7+ years like the old models did then its another thing.

I have difficulties to believe in any hardware that last these days, i'm so used to trash or resell all my stuff regularly!  The only electronical device I kept for more than 10 years was actually an Amiga!  

Now they seem to be telling they will sell a complete system which means custom case & custom keyboard/mouse.  These are expensive (look at apple) so I would expect paying around $1200 for the whole deal and be ok with it.  

I don't own any game console, cell phone, ipod or whatever so investing in this computer is something I would consider.

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With today's tools I can easily see big titles converted for this architecture if the market is interesting for some game makers.   It would be a good move from them to sell the X1000 with some software, not just an OS.   Like the A1200 bundle was.    Some office apps, a few games and there you have a lot of happy geeks

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One thing i noticed missing from the X1000 motherboard is wireless support. Where's wifi?

Hopefully most wireless PCI cards will be supported for this purpose.

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This is just great   Now let's have enough software/games to run on it and they might get my credit card number.