I'm pretty certain most people "around here" are not so bereft of reason that they see PPC as anything other than an architectural dead end as far as the desktop goes. This to us is a hobby and nothing more. Most of us simply want to enjoy our hobby, we neither wanted nor needed the "moon-on-a-stick" and haven't done since the exodus. Even within those on this site who enjoy OS4 have all pretty much in unison said this thing is way too expensive for what it can offer.
Within that context a £1500 piece of kit simply doesn't make much sense. Using a £450 dead end cpu that can be trounced by a £50 AMD or Intel part just makes it a sick joke.
PPC is incredibly expensive, even when compared to other embedded CPUs. Even Coldfire can be bought on dev boards that are significantly cheaper than an equivalently spec'd PPC. MIPS and ARM leave them both standing in terms of price/performance.
Even to the most hard-line BAF the X1000 is a harsh pill to swallow.
Then "I dont get it!" How do you make a business case stack up for a product that no one will buy? There must have been some market research done that has identified a product, a price point and a market, surely,,or Not? Or no business case: Just a wing and a prayer?
Gertsy
