AmigaOne is out of my budget league

[Tripitaka]

AmigaOne X1000 is sold for 1,846.78 GBP or 2,269.62 EUR in AmigaKit. Isn't this a little bit too high for a computer?

Does this apply again to the very little market toward it kinda thing? I mean it cost $2973.05 US. With that price I can get the top of a line latest up to date gaming laptop!!

Ssshhh...... ..no need to shout.

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If i recall correctly AmigaClassicRule has serious eye problems.

I was unaware of this. I have a partially sighted daughter so that's not something I would use for laughs.

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Now I think about it my first 486 cost about £1800 and the printer that came with it was £500. I didn't mind at the time, it was a Blue Lightning and it played DOOM faster than anything my mates had.

I guess it's all relative. Would I pay £1800 for an X1000? Yup, if I had it. Is the price of an 040  or 060 board any better for £s per MHz? Nope, it's even worse, a lot worse.

[Tripitaka]

The case design department certainly wasn't on top form that year lol

That is easily the ugliest Amiga EVER made, it makes even the melted Commodore 128 looking Amiga 500 almost nice to look at Looks like a rubbish 80386 tower PCm the Commodore 486 looks more Amiga than the Amiga 3000T does. Compared to the gorgeous A3000 desktop you have to ask WTF happened to classy elegant design?

You do realize that lots (and I do mean lots) of Amigoids love that case design don't you?
Just watch out for cultists in boing ball robes, they'll be after you.

For the record, I never liked the case design either. The 4000T on the other hand was rather sexy.

[Tripitaka]

Yes but in the days of £18000 486/P1s there was no £399 386 with 20" monitor etc etc so the comparison doesn't make sense today when you essentially have disposable PCs at £249 or less when on sale.

But they don't run OS4!

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And your £1800 486 does?

Perhaps you should re-read my posts as I have no idea whatsoever as to the reason why you would ask me such a question. But, I'll still answer it anyway.

No, of course not, Sam's and X1000's do that.

In the days of the £1800 486 I bought an Amiga 1200 (I still have the very same A1200 now) and my 486 is long gone. My whole point in the first place was yes, it is very expensive, however, years ago I was willing to pay that sort of cash for a 486 because it did something I desired. Nowadays the X1000 costs £1800 to do something I desire. What's the difference? The fact that now I can buy a cheap PC is irrelevant, they can't run OS4. So to sum up:

Past: 486 runs DOOM and costs £1800, A1200 costs £300 and does not: I bought both because I had the cash.

Now: X1000 runs OS4 and costs £1800, PC costs £300 and does not: I got the PC because I don't have the cash but when I do I'll gladly buy an X1000 too (in the meantime I've still got 5 classic Amigas to play with anyway).

[Tripitaka]

Well, I don't have a prob with that price of the X1000 since there are alternatives available.  My 250 EUR laptop from ebay may lack a certain name but is about as fast as the X1000. Why bother with that X1000 then?

Does your laptop run OS4? Of course it doesn't.

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What 5 classic Amiga do you have

A500, A500+, A1200 (my first Amiga) and two CD32's. I have another A500 and an A1200 mobo that I need to get around to looking at at some point too, the A500 didn't boot and the A1200 has no rom's but I haven't had time to do anything about it.

[Tripitaka]

Well, I don't have a prob with that price of the X1000 since there are alternatives available.  My 250 EUR laptop from ebay may lack a certain name but is about as fast as the X1000. Why bother with that X1000 then?

Because it's the fastest OS4 machine money can buy.

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For 1800 quid you could buy at least 3 lenovo i7 laptops....

That's a total of 12 processors in three machines.  Course the X1000 does have two, one of whichyou can actually use....

A valid exercise in basic mathematics but ultimately irrelevant as none of them run OS4. If you sell two of them you could install AROS on the remaining one and buy a SAM for MorphOS and OS4 of course. That would be far more fun IMHO.

[Tripitaka]

That is why I am getting Sam440, it is like buying an Amiga 1200 instead of the A4000T for example. The system never changed in the way Amiga distribute it's machines, just the motherboard and software changed that is all.
 
That is why there was an Amiga 500, 500+, 600 and 1200. For people who could not afford A2000, 3000, and the 4000.

That's the attitude. Truth is, I'll probably end up with a SAM too because I doubt if my patience will hold up whilst I save up for an X1000. Then again, I could put an external floppy drive on ebay for £1800 and see if anyone buys it.

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Well, no. And I don't miss it.Quite the contrary: I have a very good and pretty matured alternative amigaish OS for that machine that runs all my old 68k legacy software OS-natively as well as quite some new software. I think it's just cool. But I understand that there are some ppl who prefer OS4 - but those have to deal with the limited hardware offers. Complaining isn't leading forward though. Deal with it or look for alternatives.

I've got no problem with that, choice is what it's all about. Are you using MorphOS or AROS btw? Just asking out of curiosity.

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@spirantho

I still got high hopes that, some day, someone will port AmigaOS 4.1 to the PowerMac G5, since this is the next piece of hardware I'll be getting.

I still got high hopes that I'll see an OS4 netbook one day, some news from Hyperion on that front would be nice.