The X1000 will be > $2,225

[koaftder]

It was.
Because the European Union introduced the RoHS directive for environmental reasons, meaning that the board would require a major redesign, and since the board already had aged a few years, they dropped it instead.

That's a load of shit. ROHS had nothing to do with that.

[koaftder]

I prefer to use the label, "HyperionOS" personally.

[koaftder]

You can call it whatever you want, but Hyperion have the legal right to call it AmigaOS, and it is a continuation of AmigaOS. Call it "SausageCustard3000MooBlahBonkWizz" if you like, doesn't stop it being AmigaOS.

In name only my friend. There is nothing more "amiga" in HyperionOS than what's in MorphOS or AROS. The legal argument doesn't impress me and it has nothing to do with the product or it's design. If Amiga Inc licensed the name to a dildo manufacturer, would you have the same feelings about a dildo with a boing ball logo attached to it?

[koaftder]

Except that it *actually* *is* AmigaOS, and is a continued development from the OS that shipped with Commodore Amigas. But even if it wasn't, it wouldn't change the fact that legally it is the only OS allowed to be called AmigaOS.

BTW, my loyalty to OS4 is only down to the fact that i genuinely really like OS4. The two things are separate, i am merely stating the facts.

No it's not, it's a rewrite like the others.

[koaftder]

ExecSG is not a continued development and did not exist before the OS4 project began.

Of Intuition, Workbench, and the shell - only Hyperion really knows how much - if any - of the original code was actually used. The fact that much of it was written in 68K assembler really strains credibility that any of it was particularly useful, and Hyperion developers have said as much.

They probably didn't use any of it, what would be the point? Didn't Hyperion state some time ago that they reimplimented everything from scratch and didn't use any of the 3.x source code?

[koaftder]

your rigth its not 1989, its 2010 and when your a new company and order spesific hw made in low quantity it will cost an arm and a leg regardless of the year your in.

if you want it and have the money you should buy it, its notthing to sit on the fence for, its after all the best amiga ever released and you dont have to upgrade every 3 year as the pc. if you want it and dont have the money right now, then you can save up a year or two, it aint worse than that. while you wait the aos will also mature more, its a win win anyway how you see it.

Waiting two years to save up will probably not be likely as it's highly improbable that A-Eon will survive. This machine may have an absurdly high failure rate as well. Suppose A-Eon goes under after a year and only 200 boards were made and 25% of them failed. What's the motivation for Hyperion to even continue supporting it? What's the likely hood they'll actually deliver support for everything on the board in that scenario? There are a *LOT* of reasons to be on the fence right now.