News on the X1000!

[lsmart]

This is not news. A REAL release date would be news. Releasing benchmarks against a comparable mac, linux or windows pc would be news.

You obvously don´t know much about making hardware in small quantities. Slipping for a year when you found a bug in a board is very common. How can they know a release board if the Beta-Testers haven´t started their work yet?

Benchmarks at this point would be complete garbage. All you could have were estimates and they wouldn´t help you much - calculate for yourself.

There is a lot of information about the state of affairs in that post. And if anyone can ever built a new AmigaOne it´s these guys!

If you don´t like AmigaOne computers - fine, stick with classics or whatever. But I don´t see why you are criticizing a product for being late that harsh.

I for one would welcome the updated specs on the nemo2, if I find that at some point of the year I have enough cash to get it.

[lsmart]

Excuse me but you are inventing your own theories.

Not quite. I read in Amiga Future that while Hyperion needed more time to work on the software, AEON decided to fix a few small layout problems and offer better functionality and performance. It further mentions that Hyperion got the first five of the rev 2 boards in february of 2011.

[lsmart]

So the CPU is out of production ... ?

Either it is still in production or Apple has stocked millions of them. But they won´t sell it on the open market.

[lsmart]

They aren't interested in continuing to produce an outdated chip that generates little or no profit.

Varisys isn´t the only customer, who is still using that chip, wich is far from outdated if you look beyond the PC and smartphone market. Apple has signed a contract when they bought PA-Semi. AEON won´t sell many X1000s, so Varisys could easily stock a supply that is enough for - say 5 years - enough time to plan for the furure.