Call me insane if you like but I think I want an X1000 now :)

[itix]

It is your own business where you invest your money but I doubt you could make profit by selling your x1000 later.

[itix]

Actually I am thinking now....an X1000 is dirt cheap compared to a buffed up Amiga 4000D or A1200T which they can easily go for 5,000 USA dollars. So if I buy a brand new hardware that is super strong with specs for 3000 USA dollars it is nothing comparing to the 5000 dollars. In fact...I am intending to save up money for the X1000.

Be careful to not break it. If you burn the mobo it is worth nothing.

[itix]

Broken A4000s dont sell at 5000 USD.

[itix]

That is not going to work. WINE is only a compatibility layer to run Windows software on other operating system. There is no CPU emulation and even if there was it would be tricky because Windows software is little endian but WINE is using native endianess.

[itix]

you would probably, just probably, be able to run some windows_nt ppc software (if there actually is any).

Not a chance. WINE is a compatibility layer. It doesnt have endianess swapping built-in and PPC native Windows software is little endian. WINE on AmigaOS would be big endian.

You could port existing open sourced Windows software to Amiga using WINE as a compatibility layer. It was done on PPC native OS X long ago. Another question is if WINE can be ported to Amiga at all. I suspect there is too much *nix in WINE.

[itix]

Does the quad server run OS4.1?  Classic Amiga software?  Read and write Amiga disks?  Emulate multiple other computers?  Or look cool as hell with a boing ball etched front panel?

I could buy three of them for the cost of my X1000 and they wouldn't do anything like the above.  I think I'll just use my ZyXel $89 diskless server for my NAS needs. :-)

I believe it can do all of that, except OS 4.1. Early revisions of 4.0 can be run on UAE.

[itix]

Early revisions of 4.0 ran on uae?. are those 68k based?

They were 68k based. There was a beta tester legion (about 150) who had OS 3.9 as base install and downloaded new 68k based 4.0 components from FTP when they were made available.

(I used to know OS4 beta tester who was eagerly testing 4.0 on his A1200 or A4000 and he didnt have PPC.)

[itix]

I do not suppose they are available now?

I believe 68k builds were dropped when first A1 boots were successful in 2003 or so. Certainly not available for long time.