The reality is, £1500 is not a lot if it earns its keep somehow doing things better or differently than other platforms.
You cannot compare a small scale custom machine like this, built for a low volume market of users that have almost begged for this kind of machine and performance for there favourite AmigaOS4 that HAS to run on PowerPC, soon you will have it, get your credit cards preloaded with some cash.
This price is fair for what you are getting, not in a cost comparison with commodity hardware but with high end kit. Mac Pros start at this kind of price and they are mass market pro end kit. Check out a high end Games PC and you are looking well over a £1000.
Bottom line is forgetting, can I afford one which personally is not yet, I believe they are worth the money and they will please there new owners no end with a huge smile on there face. Plus they will once the potential starts to be realised, offer some great new features for a personal computer. Look at the A1000, only 4096 colours, then DCTV with 24 bit just by encoding a 16 colour images through some custom electronics and outputting to a composite output, genius. Mine then reverts back to RGB so my 25 year old A1000 has 24 bit animation.
I for one will save up, sell some old kit, part ex the girl friend and may even sell my Alfa to buy one. Well maybe not the Alfa :-)
Steve
