AmigaONE X1000 Free Shipping Offer

[amigakit]

@kickstart

We have not spammed the forum.  This is a news item, not posted by us but by the moderator of this site.

Besides, any customers who would like to save money on shipping would welcome this news.

[amigakit]

@carvedeye

There is a wafer thin margin on each X1000 sold, so we cannot go offering big discounts such as free shipping on a regular basis, otherwise there would be no point in us selling the unit in the first place.  The X1000 is a very costly piece of kit to manufacture.

[amigakit]

Yes lack of volume- to make it significantly cheaper, units would have to be made in the 10,000 range.  Also CPU is not the cheapest available- prices have ranged from $600 - $1000 per CPU.

[amigakit]

The RadeonHD v1.0 driver has today been released for FREE for all AmigaONE X1000 users.

[amigakit]

@kickstart

DDNI has had many Amiga systems over the years and made quite a few YouTube videos about his experiences. I recall the videos he made demonstrating his heavily upgraded A1200T in recent years.  So I think he is fully aware of the pros and cons of owning Amiga computers and is well qualified to decide whether his X1000 system is the best system he has owned so far.

[amigakit]

The encouraging thing is that the majority of customers who have bought the AmigaONE X1000 computers from us this week have all been new customers, presumably from outside our community.  This is good news as it makes the user base larger.  With the AMIStore project coming online soon, this will attract new developers also from outside the community.

[amigakit]

The feedback we have had is great :-) it is really good to see users enjoying their AmigaONE X1000 systems

@gertsy @DDNIUK
Thank you for your kind words.

[amigakit]

Just one small point: as stated before in this thread price is not $3.3k, customers outside EU do not pay 20% VAT.

Product Link US:

http://www.amigakit.us/product_info.php?products_id=1071

[amigakit]

The SAM440ep is a nice little system to start out on and get a taste of AmigaOS.

AmigaOS will be moving in new direction from this year onwards in terms of the complexity of the software running on it: newer software will demand more memory, CPU power and faster graphics cards.

However as mentioned here by other posters, the difference between the SAM and the AmigaONE X1000 is vast, as you would expect, being opposite ends of the range. The 440ep has a maximum MIPS of 1334 and the X1000's Pa6t CPU delivers 8,800 MIPS.  Memory is limited on the 440ep to 512mb as opposed to 8gb on the X1000.   There is 1 PCI slot of the 440ep whereas the x1000 has 2x PCIe x16 slots, 2x PCIe x1 slots and 2x PCI slots.

[amigakit]

@Duce

Try using the new OWB 1.23 web browser for a period of time, 512MB will not last you very long unfortunately.  If you are getting crashes on the SAM440ep, then perhaps you are running out of memory? We have both machines in our office and performed many comparison tests: the speed difference between browsing is very noticeable due to the large horse power of the PA6T over the lowly 440ep.

A good test is the MACE game, the game can be played in 1080p on the X1000 without issues, on the 440ep it cannot, which is of course, to be expected.

Then we have AMIStore project which will soon be bringing bigger and better software releases to AmigaOS,  These new titles will need more memory and more CPU power and better graphics cards.

I respect your viewpoint because you are not privy to the software developments that are happening right now.

Finally, the lack of PCI-e slots on the SAM range causes problems for the future if you want to expand.  At the moment, A-EON is sponsoring development of new PCI-e drivers.