I CANNOT believe you people. WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING IT TO COST $499>?
The Pegasos2 MB was sold at that price AFAIK.
This is a custom piece of hardware and at the moment THE best piece of kit EVER to come out bearing the Amiga name.
No, not Amiga name, AMIGAONE (running an OS not called Amiga OS, but AmigaOS4)
If trademarks is that important to you, at least try to get them right.
And all you guys do is WINGE WINGE WINGE.
Sure not everyone can afford it. BUT its not coming from a major pc manufacturer.
There isnt half a million units rolled out, and its NOT going to come at a loss to the developer.
Please quit making excuses on other people's behalf.
When Genesi was developing the Quad Core G5 board, they shelved it at some point, because it would end up being much too expensive, not many would buy it, so there was no point. And that was a long time ago, it would still have been cheaper than the "X1000", and the "X1000" isn't exactly Quad Core G5...
Look, *I know* that no new HW can compete with cheap second hand gear that people more or less throw after you as you go by at the local flee market, but the "X1000" price is nothing short of insane. And it's a hobby after all, nothing more. What most people are interested in, is simply tinkering with the environment they like, run the apps they are fond of, etc. That's the essence, and this is the reason to why the MorphOS team has chosen to support the eMac, *it's dead cheap*, it's *perfect* for the Hobbyist wanting to try out MorphOS without investing a fortune! It's a very clever decision, nobody can argue with this. It's all about Hyperion's decision vs. the MorphOS teams' decision. Who do you think made the most clever one?
It's a hobby, and with this in mind, and provided that...
1) You want
the very best available *miga OS to tinker with
2) You don't mind buying second hand gear
...this is what you can have to play with instead of taking out a second mortgage on your house to buy *one single* "X1000":
This first one is a complete MorphOS enabled system, with registered keyfile and all, this is the one you'll use. But you are anxious about "but ... but ... it doesn't come with a 2 year warranty", so you buy some spare HW and store it in your garage, just in case:
So if that first system breaks down, you can ask the MorphOS team to transfer your key file to the next in line, and then the next, etc. Please note that you are still below the price for a single "X1000".
OR, if you want as many *MorphOS registered systems* as possible, you can have this many:
Each and every one of these will be complete 1.25GHz systems (runs circles around any Sam), with fully registered MorphOS, ready to go. I've seen Internet Cafés with less machines than this.
