AmigaONE X5000 (A-Eon Technology Ltd on Facebook)

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If you are going to go for an F- in economics at least build something that more Amiga users would afford. Or else pay Hyperion to port OS4 to cheaper systems (x86/Arm/whatever)

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Building a custom x86 or ARM board in the same quantities would yield the same high design, manufacturing and engineering costs.  The answer lies in the scale of production.  The "fun" starts at 10,000 units.

I meant, port the OS to already existing hardware such an Intel Nuc or something like that.

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It makes zero sense to buld 10,000 x86/ARM motherboards when they are available off the shelves.

1. Port OS4 to a readily available motherboard. You will have a few thousands of possible Amiga OS4 buyers.

2. Being x86, it will be way easier to port open source software to OS4 and it will run faster.

3. Everybody wins.

Now if the future of the Amiga OS is an underspecced, ridiculously expensive computer with an obvious lack of decent software...

PS. Sorry for being blunt, not my intention to offend anyone here...

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Guess because software be addressing the same CPU?
Yeah let's keep the Amiga in the PPC era so we can run 15 year old software

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No but it would be the first step to make the OS to be more accessible.
You have to start somewhere.

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A-eon dont have to buy anything, users would buy the motherboards from wherever they want to. OS4 and programmes will have only to be ported once. In case of newer motherboards Hyperion/Aeon could create newer drivers and sell them as system updates.

The only thing Amiga in Sam and nemo boards is the Operating System.

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Thanks, I thought I was the only one seeing things differently here.

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I did mention that Amiga NG having "no software" is its biggest problem, but I was told not to expect much. Instead of A-Eon investing in an "Amistore" why don't they invest in the software directly? Software drives hardware sales alongside to affordability.

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It should be noted, though, that a quick Google search suggests these boards start at about £280 including VAT, much more than an equivalently specced "normal" motherboard.
If A-Eon or Amigakit were to use these, they'd have people complaining about having to use years-old x86 motherboards when there are much cheaper brand-new ones out there.
changing direction.

Yeah, they will complain anyway, so let's use £1500 boards instead!