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For retro and sentimental value, there would be a lot of interested parties I suspect.  At 4x the price of any comparable machine just via the fact it's a "custom case", not up my alley in the least but such offerings have appealed to some people I suppose.

I always hated the Amiga wedge boxes, but if I had the option to purchase an A4000 style or other Amiga retro case that took commodity form PC motherboards, I would gladly if it was from a reputable company.  If and only if the price on said cases is comparable to the otherwise already available "generic" PC cases by guys like Thermaltake and etc. AIO/wedge PC's have always turned my stomach, even going back to the A500, heh - again, just preference.  I do understand why people likethem from a space saving aspect, though - but I've been using a KVM for 10 years, so space isn't much of a concern.

I have never been a fan of buying prebuilt pc's, regardless of what case they come in, mainly due to the fact putting together a custom PC via components is dead simple even for a first timer these days.  Same reason I had no interest in the X1000 since you cannot just buy the motherboard/OS package sans case, but building my own rigs is mainly preference and it's infinitely cheaper than buying prebuilt more enthusiast grade pc's.  If you can operate a TV remote, you can assemble a PC from parts.

Last prebuilt desktop PC I bought was in the late 90's, tbh - and I'd never buy one again for personal use, so the prebuilt fully built system ideal doesn't appeal to me.
 

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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 10:43:51 AM »
Smerf,

Last "real" Amiga I used regularly was in the 90's.  Sold my A4000 back then, went to the PC.  4-5 years ago I picked up a PPC 1200, hated it.  Bought a SAM 440 shortly thereafter, love it.  It currently runs an old school telnet BBS, but doesn't see much use otherwise.

I build PC's for a living, and currently have an i7 running at 4ghz, with 2 590's, 24 GB RAM and jammed full of SSD's.  Mainly used for gaming, obviously.

My daily driver Amiga is an Amithlon box that hauls complete ass.