How will Hyperion continue the momentum?

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Of course the Mac tablet will likely cost less and be far more powerful than the X1000...

And more useful too.

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Who cares ?

People still buy netbooks even though they are far less powerful, and cost more than an old PC

That depends on which netbook your buying.  If it's Atom based, that maybe a horse of a different color.

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This place is sounding more & more like moobunny..

I don't think the Moobunny regulars would allow the delusional postings to continue on without challenge at a very early stage.

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I get the feeling...Amiga is software for you ? Is that the way it must stay ? Why not a case keyboard mobo and ppc.

For some of us old folks, PPC will never be an Amiga.  Regardless on what the current owners dictate as an Amiga.

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...but UAE hosted on x86 windows is?

No, it will never be a true Amiga.  That's something for the history books  as something special to many of us.

Now my uses for an Amiga in today's enviroment would be on UAE, namely games.  Which is why I was happy when Neutrino was picked, then Linux kernel was picked.  It gives me a real world enviroment  that can be a next generation Amiga OS and run the old apps (today, zero Amiga apps for me) and games in emulation.  I had hopes for AROS, but alas, I have few of those hopes left for it any more.  As far as hardware, unless it's revolutionary hardware from alien technology, give me solid, fast, and cheap hardware.  I'm far more interested in Freescales' reference tablet http://armdevices.net/2010/01/09/199-chrome-os-tablet-reference-design-based-on-freescale-i-mx515-processor/ then I am X1000.  $199 vs  $1999 is a no brainer for me.

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In the end it's all software running on hardware, I don't care what the underlying hardware is, as long as it works and is reasonably priced...

The Amiga system was an Amiga system, nothing quiet else out there between the hardware and software union.  It's a snapshot back in history, there will not be anything like it again, nor should there be.  

Today there should be a next generation Amiga OS we could be using.  Of the three Amiga-like OS, none of them are next generation.  At best there is one maybe 1990s OS, and the rest are 1980s OS trying to live in the modern world and all three are failing at it while the Dev pool shrinks a little bit more.

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I'm also surprised that they announced this board before it was ready to ship, especially considering what it will do to sales of the SAM.

To launch a new hw platform with a intergrated, stable and supported version of OS 4.x will cost a lot of $$$, how much have Hyperion got to spend on this puppy I wonder?

Hopefully some lesson have been learned by the powers-that-be over the AmigaOne lanuch and marketing disaster.

Unless this was going to be a trial balloon?

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@BigBenAussie

Your research seems fairly sound, but the only part that doesnt fit is that Hyperion claim that the board was built to thier specification, which the boards youve proposed being an X1000 wasnt. There's also "Hyperion AmigaOne" printed on the motherboard.

With the "AmigaOne" printing on the mobo, that would be considered customized mobo.