Ease off bashing AmigaONE X1000?

[James2002]

a) Who would spend $3,000+ on a Linux machine?
b) A-EON should discount the x1000 until fully operational under OS 4.x
c) A license to 4.2 is not worth thousands of dollars
 
Back to the Raspberry Pi argument. You could buy 90+ (model b) or 125+ (model a) for the same cost as one X1000. Some people like C= USA and E-on believe that just because you add a Amiga logo or use a model designation such as 1000 it warrants a huge premium.

I agree with you prices is everything. Even with my prepaid card I can only fit $2,500.00 on it.  I dont have enough credit to even buy that.  C=USA was very over priced on everything.

Would I love to buy Amiga computer? Yes if it was reasonable price. The biggest concern is how many people will buy overpriced hobby.  When I build my computers I try to stay under 600.00 USA dollars.

Operation system that works with hardware is a must.

[James2002]

"we need computer for the masses not the classes" :-)

we need cheap solutions that attract people again. A-eon is up to now concentrating on high-price AmigaOS PPC solutions. That is Trevors decision for what he spends his money but it is certainly not the right strategy to win back users and expecially developers.

I agree. I believe that  pricing is everything.  If they made a keyboard all in one  case little bit bigger than the a500, used arm technology, mouse  and it was somewhat upgradeable. The price was 500.00.  Amiga Os worked perfect with it. A lot of people would jump on the wagon.

[James2002]

So pricing isn't everything then? As you've just qualified Amiga OS has to work perfectly as well.  Drivers, hardware and performance are all covered by that.
Low price and perfection.

If I had a computer that I could learn programming I would. The windows xp computer died.