Think what you will. Sorry, but I call them like I see them. There's nothing intelligent about spending $3000 on as-yet unreleased hardware that is based on 2004 technology (beta test hardware aside). It might make sense if this was an antique business, but this isn't the antique business. It's about technology.
I have to disagree, even though I myself agree with the assessment that the X1000 sure as hell ain't worth $3000. As others have said, there's a big difference between shelling out megabucks for something that's just a cheapo PC board in a (poorly-designed) novelty case, and paying that kind of money for something that's actually a real, different thing. (Not enough of a difference to convince me, but that's a matter of degree, not nature.)
This isn't about raw technological horsepower for everyone; if it was, the question would be, why bother buying anything but a PC to begin with? Some of us do like to have
different computers, even if they're not
competitive computers.