AmigaOne is out of my budget league

[Digiman]

Yes maybe it is because i have always wanted an Amiga 3000T. Some say Commodore was at there prime when they released it, and it looks quite nice too, and there are not to many of them around. So it is a collector item.

The case design department certainly wasn't on top form that year lol

That is easily the ugliest Amiga EVER made, it makes even the melted Commodore 128 looking Amiga 500 almost nice to look at Looks like a rubbish 80386 tower PCm the Commodore 486 looks more Amiga than the Amiga 3000T does. Compared to the gorgeous A3000 desktop you have to ask WTF happened to classy elegant design?

The price for the AmigaONE X1000 is a product of using old technology at it's fastest speed. The way things are going there will be seriously faster mobile phone/tablet CPUs costing pennies not too far off.

The only choice for X1000 was the Xenon CPU from IBM, everything else was going to cost way too much. Luckily the SAM 460 @ 1000 GBP is just as overpriced on £/mhz

[Digiman]

The Xenon isn't a desktop CPU - it lacks some important features like branch prediction.

Still codes up games faster than an any i5 setup money can buy or even Core2Duo 64bit so for pushing a mouse pointer around a screen full of icons it's fine IMO. If the 360 can stream video and run IE 9 it is good enough to run OS4 on for sure, hardly a cutting edge OS any more.

[Digiman]

Now I think about it my first 486 cost about £1800 and the printer that came with it was £500. I didn't mind at the time, it was a Blue Lightning and it played DOOM faster than anything my mates had.

I guess it's all relative. Would I pay £1800 for an X1000? Yup, if I had it. Is the price of an 040  or 060 board any better for £s per MHz? Nope, it's even worse, a lot worse.

Yes but in the days of £18000 486/P1s there was no £399 386 with 20" monitor etc etc so the comparison doesn't make sense today when you essentially have disposable PCs at £249 or less when on sale.