The X1000 will be > $2,225

[ajlwalker]

I suppose one good thing about the price is it may prevent people stockpiling Amigas.

Those original A1, SAM and Peg users may put their old machine on the market in order to raise funds for the X1000.

That would be win win in my book.  More users all round.

From a personal point of view I've got the money for the X1000 and have never used OS4.  So it will probably be my first OS4 machine.  However, though I have the money, I don't have the space for it at the moment, and not sure when I will!

[ajlwalker]

@redrumloa

I'm not sure this is appropriate behaviour from a forum moderator.

[ajlwalker]

New Amiga? hmmmmmm maybe in name, Amiga was cutting edge when it was introduced what i see here is expensive old technology at 6 core prices. To me it just doesn't feel like an Amiga, it look like any other PC/Mac around at the moment in truth i am far more excited about FPGA Arcade/Natami and other projects then this. what can this do that my Quad core at work or home cant using win 7, what is there to make me want to beg for a X1000... nothing i wish i can think otherwise but it comes down to another PC/Mac look alike with an Amiga name sorry but this does get my juice flowing or anything else for that matter.
I can build dozens of computer that look better, faster and a more personalized then this "Amiga" and that using store bought MB/HDD and graphics cards. All it has in OS4..... not really a point to spend any amount of money on....

I keep reading "what can this do that my PC can't".  It is quite simple, this can run OS4.  Your PC can't.

It is up to you to decide if this is the "killer app" for you or not.  Fact remains, your PC can't run it.

Oh, and Amiga wasn't always cutting edge.  No way could the A1200, A4000 or CD32 be called cutting edge.

[ajlwalker]

Very True and look i do hope you sell heaps but for me i wish the specs were better, then i would buy one. Hopefully when you make the next version it will be either more powerful (then i don't mind spending the money) or cheaper.
I don't really follow any camp and at the same time i follow all (i have heaps of system that i love to mess around with and put all the Different AOS on them).
Can't wait to see what will happen in the next year or so should be very interesting.

Which is the attitude I wish there was more of round here.

Nothing wrong with some constructive criticism.  You recognise that this is hopefully a first step to something either more affordable, more powerful, or let's dream - both!

[ajlwalker]

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.

Do Varisys have a 25% failure rate then?