people keep referring to it as bashing, but it seems fair criticism if a system seems to boot slowly (and to question it/and why). And it does seem an odd move to release such a low quality out of focus video for a product that has so much hype etc. (and so much time/money put into it). I'm not going to start saying stuff is great just because it is related to the Amiga platform.
Agree regarding how the video only essentially gave people nits to pick about the machine. At the very least, it would have taken 2 minutes to add a text disclaimer "slow booting due to debug code" or similar. I would expect it to boot up just as quick as my SAM does once it's released. Or simply release such a video when it actually boots to OS in seconds rather than essentially minutes, lol.
The X1000 is about $1500 from what I'd ever pay for another OS4 PC, and quite frankly won't do a darned thing more than my lowly SAM 440ep does right now. Software for OS4 is the issue, not hardware. A multi megahertz X1000 won't let me view modern web content any quicker than my SAM, the browser to do so is simply non existant to get that job done.
I'm far from a OS4 fanboy, but any machine will absolutely crawl during power on if it has 9001 things to check on during boot debug mode.
The video wasn't an encouraging thing to view for a product people are already highly skeptical of and shouldn't have been released in the form it was, tbh. Sure, it's proof the HW actually exists and runs, but sure leaves a sour taste in most peoples' mouths. Even for guys like myself that know first hand how fast a NG "Amiga" whether it be OS4 or MorphOS can actually power up, it's a terrible demonstration.
