AmigaOne X1000 booting AmigaOS4.1 Update 3

[zylesea]

The X1000s are all beta-test machines. That means they will be running the debug kernel, with serial debugging, and hence not representative in any way of the final version. Judging anything from a beta-test quick video is unfair.

Comparing the boot-time of this machine to a released PC is misguided at best.....

But serial debug doesn't explain everything. When I used my Peg1 with serial debug enabled it didn't bot that slow. Seems there is pretty much deboug output...
Also I am pretty confused that the firmware shows a *500* MHz processor? What's that? Timing issues on the board?

[zylesea]

The next Amiga (or amigalike) system that I'll buy got to be able to play a fullhd movie on my TV being connected with a HDMI cable and from I've read the X1000 will be able to do that. I know that my PowerMAC never will.

You are just wrong. Today a PowerMac G4 already replays 720p vids easily (my 1.5 GHz Mac mini is pretty loaded with 720p, but actually does handle it nicely) . You want hdmi? Easy, get a hdmi/dvi cable and be done (hdmi is backward is compatible dvi).
The G5 does easily replay full hd, it has been tested already by Fab.

You see, your demand is fully covered by the rusty old el cheapo Apple gear with MorphOS. Part of your demand since about two years meanwhile (720p hdmi). But of course you may continue to wait for the holy grail....

[zylesea]

Without audio, right? I want audio too.

Maybe I get mad, but while I watch movies on my Mac mini I not only hear voices, but also music. Incredible!!! How can that be since there is no hdmi port?
But I have an idea: Theres is this pretty funny 3.5mm jack on the back of my mac mini. I had this übercrazy idea to take a few copper cables I connect this jack with my hifi amplifier. Wow - what an effect: Music, voices. Lord of the rings actualy is no silent movie as I thought all the years before!!

[zylesea]

Oh what do you know! There it is! Great! Except that I don't have my hifi amplifier set up, my speaker system isn't in front of me when I watch movies, it's in front of me when I sit in front of my computer, I don't want the sound to come from the side, I don't want to cary around the speakers, I want the sound to come out from my TV. And why would I bother when it works the way I want to from the PC? It will work the way I want to on the X1000 but it never will on the PowerMac. I think that I'm allowed to have thoughts about how I want my computers to work, not how you think that they should work (or anyone else). It doesn't work on a PowerMac, end of story.

dvi-i is also able to transmit digital audio data. If your dvi source supports audio, you'll have audio on the hdmi plug, too.
It's not a problem of the hardware, it is a problem of the software.