Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?

[Hans_]

My biggest concern is hardware compatibility.  Those PCIe ports are great but ultimately meaningless if you don't have drivers for more than a mere handful of obscure PCIe expansions.

Those should come once the hardware is out. There will be existing PCI hardware that has PCIe versions; since the registers are in the same place, the existing drivers will cope nicely. As for new hardware, well I've been working on some drivers for a while now. Right now the cards I'm using have a PCI-to-PCIe bridge on them so that they plug into my A1, but I'm looking forward to being able to use PCIe directly. It's going to take a while before these graphics cards are fully used, but I'm making progress.

Hans

[Hans_]

Or you could just buy something like this for $200 and scale up by plugging additional units into another USB port. On *any* computer.
http://www.dmxsoft.com/details.php?id_pro=LDNANO&cat_pro=28

The USB port would add extra latency which may or may not matter.

Things were different in the 1980s, you couldn't just buy anything to add on to your computer. Nowdays you'd struggle to come up with a project that somebody else hasn't already refined and mass produced for use with a bog-standard PC at a fraction of the cost you could build it yourself. Even the X1000 falls into this category, look at all the video cards that support CUDA.

Yet, some crazy people still build stuff themselves, just for kicks.

Hans