Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000

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With the content of your posts on threads such as these, I'm fairly sure you can't help me anywhere! :-)

Seriously, why are you so bothered by the X1000? Why do you care so much if people want to buy it or not? I'm genuinely interested in your motivation. It doesn't make any difference to me if people want to buy this, a power mac or a dead parrot as long as they're happy with their purchase, that's great.

As for any performance of the X1000, I quote from http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=580

"Given the rushed nature of this AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 release, there are still some bugs and a few rough edges. Remember, the X1000 was originally planned to be released only with AmigaOS 4.2 installed. Also please keep in mind most of the X1000 system is still unoptimized. This is truly the most powerful Amiga Operating System hardware platform ever released and we plan to utilize this hardware to its full potential in due course."

Basically wait until the software is fully optimized for the X1000 before analysing performance too deeply.

Someone asked how much A1X1K costs and so far takemehomegrandma's answer was closest one.

The performance figure "A1X1K is roughly as fast as PowerMac" is also correct and not contradicting with the official Hyperion statement "the most powerful Amiga Operating System hardware platform ever released" at all. A1X1K is the fastest Amiga Operating System Hardware you can buy. Not fastest Amiga obviously but Hyperion never claimed that :-)

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How much does the X1000 retail for ?

About $3200 if you are in the US.

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The relevant part was actually "Also please keep in mind most of the X1000 system is still unoptimized." My point is, as with any software, when it's in beta, it's not generally going to be running at the same speed as in its final polished state.

Your point being?

Today A1X1K costs X dollars and scores Y in benchmarks. What it costs in the future and how fast it performs in the future are just useless. My MorphOS could be faster than anything else in the future when it is running on future with future optimisations but it could be just the sun explodes tomorrow.

Instead of playing usual pissing contest why not just say what it costs, what it does and that is it? You dont have to care what Mac costs of what MorphOS does. TMHGM didnt even mention MorphOS in his post. So please stop your witch hunt and learn to read.

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I do have more the impression that the sole existence of some people is to criticize anything related to OS4.
But then I am a weird person.

Didnt you piss off OS4 core developers on that Timberwolf thread at AWN...?

But really, what is wrong with some people. Someone asks how much AmigaOne costs and TMHGM replies with it costs as much as 30 used PowerMacs. Then some usual suspects go berserk but dont bother to tell how much it really costs.

To me it seems that some people are applying double standards here.

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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.

If I say it costs 3000 dollars are you going to argue dollars cant run OS4?

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.

This thread started derailing right after post number 2. Wonder who were they?

We know MOS runs on Powermacs. We get that.

Thank you repeating it again. We know. drHirudo told us.

We also get that the X1000 costs a lot more than 10-year-old Powermacs. We get that too.

How much it costs? Is it really so difficult to answer it? Is it so difficult that after 10 offtopic posts including Amiga.org moderator I had to tell how much it costs?

We also get that the X1000 runs AmigaOS 4 which Powermacs don't.

That is great. I am not going to buy PowerMac nor AmigaOne.

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.

None of my business. AmigaKit is selling and advertising AmigaOne here. Someone asks what it does, what it costs, whatever and we answer. Yup, tmhgm loves MorphOS, is evangelising here but you dont have to feel so insecure whenever MorphOS is mentioned on this site. Maybe annoying to you sometimes but the best counter argument is facts.

I know I would write to Commodore USA threads what you never would do.

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@drHirudo

Thank you for registering your interest for AmigaOne X1000.

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@drHirudo

FYI Odyssey a.k.a. MUIOWB is the most popular browser for Amiga.

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Really?? I think it's a fine piece of work and hats off to Fab and co for it, but for example netsurf-m68k has 13760 downloads. Don't you think that there are more classic systems (especially including amikit, etc.) and consequently it's 68k-based browsers that are in use the most. Checking the logs of places such as here, amigaword, amigans, will give a better indication I guess.

Yes you might be right on that. Although... never mind, lets discuss it on another thread another time