@Iggy there is a port of Ubuntu for this thing apparently. Also android.
Are you comparing the price of a motherboard alone to the price of a complete system with case, and with PCI-e, PCI, XORRO, SATA, IDE that the other do not have?
The price quoted for the X1000 was afaik for the motherboard alone.
PCI slots that you're going to use for what exactly? There are drivers for what, maybe a dozen PCI cards AmigaOS can use, graphics is taken care of on board. USB ftw. This thing comes with everything you need on a single board to make it usable. What good are these connectors if there is very limited use made of them by the OS?
Seriously though, Xorro? The Xcore is available as a $10 usb dongle.
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Bah, paolone said it better.
The point is, this board is out there, it's cheap, it's available and performance wise an A9 should do quite well against a G4/5 class cpu.
Oh and the OS's are fast becoming mature for this hardware platform.
Futhermore, you are comparing the Price of a Cpu used on a devices (mobile phones) that only the last 2 years sold more units that computers in all the history of the personal computers
So what? All that means to me is that I get great performance for a low cost. Also very low power requirements = cheaper running costs.