I guess the price is the biggest worry for all of us. I've been used to build myself a new PC every 2-3 years whitout spending more than $700 (no monitor) and it did the job. If this new Amiga costs over $1000 but does everything we want for 7+ years like the old models did then its another thing.
I have difficulties to believe in any hardware that last these days, i'm so used to trash or resell all my stuff regularly! The only electronical device I kept for more than 10 years was actually an Amiga!
Now they seem to be telling they will sell a complete system which means custom case & custom keyboard/mouse. These are expensive (look at apple) so I would expect paying around $1200 for the whole deal and be ok with it.
I don't own any game console, cell phone, ipod or whatever so investing in this computer is something I would consider.
Pricing is going to be a huge factor in determining whether I fork out for one of these. My first Amiga A500 cost £299 plus extra for the A520 modulator. My A4000D 030 6MB Ram, 85MB Hard Drive with Final Writer cost me £1200 in 1994. The top-end Sam on Amiga Kit 1GB Ram 733Mhz costs £743.20. The Sam is described as "entry level" vs the X1000. I reckon a price point of £999 - £1200 is likely depending on configuration. For this amount of money you can get a macbook pro (£918), a macbookair (£1174) or a iMac (£969). Admittedly these are all base models so I'm not comparing apples with apples, but even so the X1000 has got its work cut out, compounded by the lack of killer software like high end video editing, photoshop etc. So are there going to be more announcements on the software front?
Weed
