Today however it is hopelessly out-gunned as a serious system (the price of a full X1000 setup puts you firmly into gaming laptop and serious workstation territory) and incredibly hard to justify as a hobby machine, even if we were in good times.
I agree, for about AU$700 less money I can get a really sweet gaming PC: i7 930 (quad-core), GTX470, 6 GB DDR3, 500GB HDD etc. I don't really see what the X1000 is bringing to the table for that price...
