The X1000 will be > $2,225

[jorkany]

From a personal point of view I've got the money for the X1000 and have never used OS4.  So it will probably be my first OS4 machine.  However, though I have the money, I don't have the space for it at the moment, and not sure when I will!

You have plenty of time to make space for it - at least six months according to A-eon.

[jorkany]

The only jokes around are the people that still do not understand this machine is not aimed at Amigans at large but a small population of developers and PowerUsers (read: enthusiast with enough money or "will"). It only serves as a vehicle for the first, to evolve the platform, and it's just a first step.

Okay, so where have these developers been hiding for the past six years? Are you saying they refused to buy the A1 and the SAM because they weren't priced *high* enough?

[jorkany]

Except that it *actually* *is* AmigaOS, and is a continued development from the OS that shipped with Commodore Amigas. But even if it wasn't, it wouldn't change the fact that legally it is the only OS allowed to be called AmigaOS.

ExecSG is not a continued development and did not exist before the OS4 project began.

Of Intuition, Workbench, and the shell - only Hyperion really knows how much - if any - of the original code was actually used. The fact that much of it was written in 68K assembler really strains credibility that any of it was particularly useful, and Hyperion developers have said as much.