If I wanted to run Linux I could do it on any x86-64 machine and it would be various times faster and better supported. Most of insteresting software runs on Windows. LinuxPPC would be my last choice if I wanted to run Linux. Even ARM distros are better supported.
Gladly there are Debian, Mint and Ubuntu that do quite well PPC support. I am not arguing ability of Linux to be run almost on anything, but I am arguing your past point that X1000 is merely just a toy. On Windows subject, yes, no one can beat its pro software except MacOS X.
The relationship price/features has always been much better on x86/Mac even brand new because software base and speed compared to competition is superior.
I am not sure because for same money you can get 2-3 times faster x86 that can have all the same software in Windows even better performance in Linux compared to Linux on Mac x86. When AMD beats Intel in same cash category, Wintel combo beasts MacOS X way more. But OS is charming and easy and Mac is prestigious. Here you pay just hipster bonus that is not reality based.
Point was its not always a price/performance that is determining factor. Also, if Apple was so kind to try to take over the world, they would open MacOS X to as many x86 boards and cards by encouraging devs to do drivers and selling just the software. But they don`t and do kind of Hyperion thing, just on x86. Earning on hw-sw combo. Just on way bigger market and with way better OS.
Spot the difference? I haven't even talked about boards breaking and finding replacements easily.
Quite aware of these risks, but you should better ever not see how much Apple charges once warranty is out.
And spending 2500€ on a slow&rare&expensive board is easier?
Its way more harder, including bank debt interest, but is way to support AmigaOS growing more mature and watching it grow.
Because for that low price I can have a nice amiga experience easily, it's peanuts compared to 2500€. If I used Amiga OSes as rarely as some OS4 vocal supporters do (heck! some of them don't even use it) I could even live with the 30 minute limit :-D
I ll try to do as much job and fun as software allows I to.
There's nothing "custom" about x1000 or PPC Macs, these are just standard boards with PPC chip. IMHO Amigas were custom hardware, Dracos, x1000, AmigaOne or PPC Macs were not. BTW: I don't care about using "custom" hardware or not, but there's no single chip specifically designed for x1000 (like Agnus, Denise, Paula or Gary were) so it's quite funny some people insist on calling x1000 "custom hardware".
Well PCI and PCI-E bus are standards and no one is reinventing the wheel. Dracos were quite custom thing au contrare, in old school sense. But X1000 is quite custom considering beside Acube there are no other PPC boards on sale. When I today say custom I think of new design, that haven`t existed before and not reselling some one elses designs.
In those terms x86 Macs are not a custom hardware, but X1000 is.
XMOS was nice try to have that old school spirit.
I was thinking of old school custom thing, but designing new graphics and audio chips with major players is simply waste of time. And PCs won and were competative just because more choices were avail for PCI slots then Zorro expansions, even Amiga bus was clever, good and offered many expansions. So nothing wrong there, not to mention big Amigas in the past also had ISA slots, beside Zorro.
But there's nothing fancy about a standard PPC board released in prototype-like numbers sold for a expensive price as a donlge to run one of the incarnations of my favourite OS.
Oh its quite fancy just because of things mentioned as well as nice Fractal Design case :-) And same, expect extreme small numbers, could e.g. define Pegasos board.
If you set the price so high you reduce the number of possible users and buying more expensive hardware doesn't help. Did AmigaOne SE, XE, uA1, Sam440, Sam460, x1000 help to lower the prices of hardware? no, they didn't. In fact the relationship price/features is much much much worse now than when A1 was released.
I believe A1 was done in higher quantity then any of those. Amiga market did shirink in dark age WHEN THERE WAS NO HARDWARE.
Now bitchin is because its expensive. Its hard to keep people happy,
Surely if there are more Amigans, hardware would be cheaper, and if hardware would be cheaper if there were more Amigans. But its not an easy spell to brake.
Supporting Sam460 is a waste of time if you ask me, I would prefer that effort going to adding more features to the OS.
People do deserve their board well supported, and some of things like RadeonHD 3D driver should be an OS feature.
"Amigas" (even thought we are talking about an "AmigaONE" and not an "Amiga") were never as expensive as now and never had so poor relationchip between price and features. When Classic miggies were released these had good price/features ratio, it could be better or worse compared to PC/Mac but now it's way far behind.
There is a bit illusion: similar situation was about time of A1200/4000/CD32. It only worsen when market shrinked. To me, AmigaOne is Amiga successor.
Enjoy it, most of people who wants to try out OS4.x can't.
Thanks. They should go for SAM 440.
Perhaps you are overoptimistic. think about how many classic users you knew and think about how many of them would spend 2500€ let alone 1000€ on Amiga with the available software and the poor features of the OS...
They already did that in OS 3.1 times. But its their own money and desision. I see no other alternative to go forward except to support what is on the table, and hope in the end it will lead to well developed OS with some usable apps, and if and when possible cheaper hw and more users. Meanwhile, it is what it is, I don`t try to negate that, but to enjoy it.