Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000

[spirantho]

That's better. This thread is now complete.

I was worried for a moment, it seemed like the trolls had forgotten us.

Now can we please get back on topic?

[spirantho]

What I really love is the fact that the PowerMacs in question are FAR slower than a cheap bargain basement x86 box, which can run AROS.
So what if 30 Power Macs can be bought for one X1000? You can get a much faster x86 for the same price, and AROS has just as much to do with AmigaOS 4 as MorphOS does - i.e. none at all.

So if you're going to buy an NG system and don't want to buy an X1000, then get an x86 box and run AROS. But if you want to run AmigaOS 4, then it can't be a PowerMac so there's no point whatsoever mentioning it.

Stupid thing is that this MorphOS evangelism every time OS4 is mentioned has done far more damage to the MOS reputation than both AROS and AmigaOS put together.

[spirantho]

The point is that measuring in PowerMacs is pointless. You may as well say it costs 7,000 grapefruit - a grapefruit can run OS4 just as well as a Powermac, after all.

The problem is that every time - and I mean every time - someone mentions OS4, the thread gets derailed by the same people with the same unrelated posts.

We know MOS runs on Powermacs. We get that.
We also get that the X1000 costs a lot more than 10-year-old Powermacs. We get that too.
We also get that the X1000 runs AmigaOS 4 which Powermacs don't.

But do the MOS people get the fact that some people want to run AmigaOS 4 and not MOS?

MorphOS is a great piece of work, but it doesn't belong in a thread about the X1000 - at all.