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Re: Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000
« Reply #14 from previous page: April 03, 2012, 12:11:44 PM »
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This thread is (was) about X1000


Indeed it is!
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Re: Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2012, 02:20:04 PM »
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So based on this post can you understand why people who are interested in getting an OS4 machine are a bit confused when you recommend a PowerMac on a AmigaOS4 related thread.


Not at all, that was settled in the original post already, everyone really interesting in getting an A1X1K knows exactly how to proceed from reading that single post! ;)

Anyone wanting to *learn more* however, to hear more than a single view on the HW (the "impartial" view of the seller), etc, is free to proceed reading the rest of the thread. And since $3,000 is far from a trivial amount of money, I think it's only fair to (as a complement) point out what you can actually get as an *alternative*, i.e. a system with roughly the same performance, running an OS with more and better features, better Amiga compatibility, higher stability, etc, for 1/30th of the asking price in the original post. It's a free world, if you absolutely want an A1X1K and have a pile of money that you stumble upon every time you walk into the kitchen, then there is nothing stopping you. But *maybe* you'll rethink and chose the other way, ending up with a *more competent* system overall, while still having some $2,800 left in the bank (depending on how much you "pimp" the HW)? I can think of *many* ways to use some left-over $2,800 personally, as I think most people can...

I get it that you don't like this, you have made it more than obvious...
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Re: Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2012, 04:21:18 PM »
@ drHirudo

After everything that has been said in this thread (and even illustrated with pictures) about money and "worth for money", it's actually rather amusing to see you trying playing ball in "the numbers game" this way! :lol: Nothing you say, no matter what numbers you put up here for comparison, will make the A1X1K look like a good buy, or even *sane*... ;)

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So with 3000 USD, you can buy - 3000/147,94 - 20,27 MOS licenses


But I honestly think most people will settle with just one! :p ;) I'm sorry to say, but you seem to have *entirely* missed the point...

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just FYI, at least with the 'first contact' systems, you had to purchase the OS license additionally.


See...? :) And the MorphOS price for licenses for some older HW is said to go down... *in the future*! ;) (Just like on OS4: everything will be good, and everything will be supported... *in the future* :lol:)
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Re: Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2012, 04:53:46 PM »
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But in reality for price of one OS licence you get both OS 4.1.5 now and OS 4.2 in the future.


Isn't that pretty much exactly what eliyahu said? :lol:

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But what if people want expand ability


Plenty of room in a PowerMac...

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and ability to use dual core in the future and only X1000 offers it?


So does the PowerMac!

But again, Amiga is a single core system, its design prevents true SMP, and it can't have true memory protection, and it isn't 64-bit either. *If* exploring these features would be the goal for the OS developers, then why on earth would they do it on a A1X1K? Why continue the PPC path at all? If you are to break the "Amiga" anyway, why not do it on some other, much better architecture? Even ARM seems to beat PPC! Performance wise, and from a desktop Point of View, x86 is even more attractive.

Isn't a platform migration the natural thing to do at that point? There is no "Power" in PowerPC, not in the year 2012 and beyond! ARM and/or x86, but not PPC! Since those features would require a break from the past, why continue with PPC at all? Why not bring the new platform onto a modern architecture? For example, if MorphOS developers would want to start exploring 64-bit support for the future (as suggested by Fab in his presentation of MorphOS future), why would they do that on a *dead* G5 platform (or PA6T for that matter)? I mean, if the legacy is to be broken anyway, why not migrate to greener pastures while you are at it?
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Re: Registering Interest for AmigaOne X1000
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2012, 12:49:08 PM »
@ loony

LOL, 3 posts in 8 years, that must be the *definition* of a "lurcher"... :lol:
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