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Wish A-EON would make a mid range offering.  Was looking into a X1000 recently and realized I could buy a Titan Z for cheaper.

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Outside of things like HD video, for the common man, a low end SAM system is more than enough.

You find me someone rendering production grade stock on an OS4 machine and I'll eat my hat.  You find me someone doing post production on any NG Amiga system, I'll mail you $100.

You won't.  The problem with them all is the software is not there, and that doesn't matter a lick if you're using a SAM or the X1000.  Sorry, AmigaKit - it's a great machine, but it still suffers the root problems of the OS and the apps available.  Install 3 V12's in a FIAT, it's still a FIAT.  Know what you're in for before you buy.  Me, I've tried using my OS4 (and MOS) machines for sole daily usage.  I end up using my tablet more.  Your usage case may vary.

You buy an X1000 and you'll have your web browsing experience come to a crashing end every time you submit changes in a GDoc, just like it does on my SAM.  Consider it a built in feature of the leading browser.

I love my SAM, but let's not delude ourselves that additional horsepower and a $3000 pricetag for a motherboard or machine like the X1000, that it runs a whole new class of software.  It doesn't.  Sorry.

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Not running out of memory - the browser crashes 100% of the time when you try and do even the most miniscule of modern tasks on it, for example the saving in some of the Google cloud apps.  It's so predictable you could set your watch by it, and every time I've tried using my OS4 machine as a sole daily driver I'm always left reaching for a $90 Android tablet to do the most simple of things.  I mean, my many years old Galaxy S2 that I use as a MP3 player cuts the mustard, but a $3000 OS4 box would just crash.

Sorry, just gotta call it like it is.  I'd have the same problems with a more beefy machine, and I have tested a 460 machine putting it through the same paces and it still barfs.  Unless the highest of the high end software can make up for SW shortcomings, well...

This being said, my MOS box also gives some pretty consistent browser barfs in the same day to day tasks.

Sorry, you'll have to forgive me - but the rhetoric about how a super high end machine will do so much more than a lower end one doesn't hold true when the OS and SW base is the same just doesn't ring true, and it kept me from buying a 460 recently.