It seems that the X1000 announcement has sent the forum into a timewarp backwards to 2003 or so. I've not seen so much amiga "sectarianism" for a long time.
So, the X1000. It's going to be expensive. We all pretty much understand that. What I don't quite get is why this seems to be such a catalyst for the old Red v Blue nonsense.
The only people that the X1000 was ever going to appeal to is people in the "Red" camp. I strongly doubt anybody in either the "Blue" or "Black" camp would ever buy it, not at any price. The obvious reason being that one's choice of OS dictates pretty much what you can use hardware wise. If you are a MorphOS guy, you are going to get a Peg, Efika or more likely a Mac of some description. End of story, really. Likewise, if you are an AROS guy you're going to choose whatever x86 based kit works for you.
So why all the angst of the X1000, it's price, performance? Personally I like 3.x and it's gang of unruly offspring. I probably use OS4 most of all the "next gen" stuff, but I'm considering a ppc mac at some point so that I can fiddle around with a more up to date MorphOS too.
But that's me. Many others are quite singular in their preference. Which is fine, I have no problem with that. However, if I were predisposed to just one of them, I really would not give a rats rectum about what any of the others are up to. Why would I?
Am I alone in wondering what all this recent nonsense is about?
MorphOS is not an Amiga, it's just another OS. Ditto AROS.
x1000 is a piece of hardware which had such a load of hyped build up that when it was revealed to be a 1.8ghz G5 and not much else (only 50% of which the OS4 can use anyway unlike OS X) at £1500 it seemed a joke with no punchline.
However even that's fine as a product, if you want one buy one be my guest.
My issue is with....
1. People assuming there is no cheap and x86-64 price/performance killing PPC alternative...there is it's called Xenon and runs at 3.2Ghz with the most efficient Power architecture available today for peanuts (Sony/Toshiba funded cost of CELL which IBM derived this CPU from)
2. That x1000 is from an engineering point of view the best machine possible (see 1. above) or that overpriced alternatives like G4/G3 based solutions are worth the price these days.
I guess maybe people would actually like to see a company full of hype actually provide a solution that is technically clever and up to date AND not price it out of the market. Not mass market but not 'screw you nerd! just sign here!' price/performance wise for a change.
It's not like there is any hardware worth purchasing since the original AmigaONE to run OS4 with is there?
