This machine may have an absurdly high failure rate as well.
What gives you the expectation that Varisys (
http://www.varisys.co.uk/ ) will likely output that high a percentage of defective product?
What's the motivation for Hyperion to even continue supporting it?
They've married their company name to the product. The most loyal and ardent AmigaOS 4 fans will be the owners of X-1000s for the most part. If they piss off that group, they sign their own death warrant.
What's the likely hood they'll actually deliver support for everything on the board in that scenario?
Nobody ever thought the Peg2 would run AOS 4.x, but it does. And thats not even a machine they were associated with. Why would they not seek to support as many features as they could on the X1000 even if it had low sales? Whats the alternative? Never advance to 64 bit? Never go multi-core? Those are the things that would make users want to eventually upgrade their SAMs anyway.
