Will you be buying an AmigaOne X1000 ?

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It's quite a distinction to be able to shell out £1,150 for a motherboard and have to sign a gag order too....

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@Franko

But again, not everyone buys your narrow definition of what an Amiga is.  UAE is a marvellous way of maintaining an Amiga without having to deal with all the problems of 15 to 20 year old hardware.  It's also capable of running an order of magnitude or more faster than any physical Amiga every made.  There's never been a Steve Jobs to carry the vision forward.  Throughout it's history it's been dragged through scandal, scam and dirty dealing in a manner that more resembles a soap opera than a computer history.

We live in 2010, almost 2011.  It's fair to compare anything that we see that may carry the name Amiga in all or part of it's name to things that we can buy in 2010/11.  I can go out, plunk down US$200 and get a 10 inch Android tablet that will emulate a Classic Amiga beautifully and has more power than a SAM.

I came into the Amiga 25 years ago because it was better than anything on the market and price comparable to MS Windows clones.  It was cutting edge, bleeding edge really.  That bleeding edge is no longer possible in the Amiga world, and likely never will be, so the only way to unify the desire for an Amiga and the desire to be on the bleeding edge is to run UAE on a high end Mac or PC....

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Apple doesn't have anything that slow and certainly not that slow at that high a price.  X1000 makes the Apple Store look like a discount store.  A Mac Mini running at a higher speed is less the 30% of the X1000 price.  Make it a laptop and the Mac Book is about 40% of the X1000 price...

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

Put an Apple sticker and everyone will say, "Oh that's why it's more expensive."

Regardless of price, I would have faith if they could just release it when they say they will. It won't happen though, a part time interest in the completion of these type of projects means that by the time it is released the technology has become bottom of the pack. Look at ARM going multicore. Next up is wireless USB.

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@Franko

But three people in a garage are not going to create the next Amiga, a world beating quantum leap in technology.  Those days are gone.  The cost of developing a new hardware system that truly advanced the state of the art would be beyond what anyone could afford.  The '80s were a different time, they won't come again, at least not in computers.

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Neither of whom are selling a netbook spec'ed machine at 1500 quid....

Selling overpriced stuff doesn't make you a fraud if the item does what it was promised to do.

Otherwise, Microsoft and Apple would have been out of business years ago mate.

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A quad core Mac Pro is *exactly* two grand in the Apple Store...

Configure your Mac Pro

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I can show you why I would say no:
 

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Yep, sort of Salvador Dali meets '80s computing, and not in a good way.  It would be nice if they produced a mini itx board and let us put it in a case.  There's a lot of mini-itx cases that look quite stylish....

that thing is hideous

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My personal feeling is that there's just too much good new stuff on the market to spend money on that it's hard to spend north of £1,500 on yesterday's technology.  I'm collecting tablets at the moment and they are a lot of fun and don't cost anywhere near that amount.  There are just too many toys and not enough time to play with them...

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For those who have been living on another planet:

(It's wikipedia, but be warned the page is sexually explicit)

Teabagging

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Any chance of a wireless keyboard on the NatAmi?

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Do you seriously think that there will be users coming back to the Amiga platform?  We are all there is and all there likely will be, whatever we do in the Amiga world we need to do for ourselves, not some mythical entry by troops...

I guess this thread is as offtopic as it gets now. Or are you seriously comparing Natami to the X1000? Do you think there will be users coming back to the Amiga platform, because there is an 68060-class board on the market?

While I think Natami is great. I am sure it caters to a much different audience.

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@lsmart

Actually you can do that on an iPad!