AmigaONE X5000 (A-Eon Technology Ltd on Facebook)

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Seems like they are now trying to avoid Amiga product numbers.  That is a good thing.

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No, it seems pointless.

Well using the A numbers with an X was confusing.  They got a lot of criticism from using the 1000 name, since the A1000 was state of the art cutting edge when it was introduced and the X1000 was far from it.

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It would be financially suicide to build a variety of systems for a variety of price ranges in a small market.

Besides, IMHO ppc makes sense, there is no need for amiga os to become yet another obscure x86 OS. And stepping in others footstep, means you can never pass them.

And given the budget AmigaOS has you aren't going to pass anyone, Andriod, iOS, MS Windows, OSX... Realistically it's survival you want, anything else is cream.

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Well if they wrote the code correctly moving to ARM or X86 shouldn't be that hard.  Apple did both.

Anyway, we'll have to wait for Anubis/ARIX to see if they have an answer...

It is about 20 years too late in regards to porting to x86, IMO.

I fail to see what it would buy us, even if it was easy to do.  You're still having to use an emulator to run legacy programs, and you are never going to get all of said legacy software ported to the new architecture.  At least with my PPC "Amiga" hardware, whether it be MOS or OS4, I still can run the vast, vast majority of old Amiga programs without having to use an emulator.

You'd have an Amiga like OS on commodity hardware, which would lower the costs of entry, for sure, though.

Smells like AROS to me, IMHO.

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Well for US$ 60 it better be faster than the X1000.

Look at this

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/01/60-bay-trail-d-motherboard-shipping.html


And a quad-core version will be available for 70$! Awesome!