AmigaONE X5000 (A-Eon Technology Ltd on Facebook)

[Megamig]

What will the X1000/X5000 offer the average hobbyist?

As I have mentioned before... Trevor gets a F- for economics. He built a machine for his own pride and joy whilst neglecting the basic principles of economics.

At least Commodore made sure that their products were affordable. Surely it would have been nice if every A1200/A600 sold had included a HD floppy drive, CD-ROM, hard drive, Ethernet and loads of RAM but the price would have been excessive and out of the reach of most users.

My advice is instead of producing another unaffordable model look at ways to deliver an affordable CR version at a price that would attract users to the OS4 platform.

[Megamig]

If Trevor followed any economic sense or logic he wouldn't be in the Amiga market at all.
The fact that he decided to ignore sense and spend his money the way he wanted to - rather than the way many would deem sensible - is something I and many other AmigaOS 4 users are very grateful to him for.

Firstly if it is not affordable do not associate it with Amiga - Trevor has gone more Apple than Amiga when it comes to pricing.

Trevor knows full well about economics, but he chose to spend his money the way he wanted to and benefited hundreds of others in the process, and for that I applaud him.

Great for Trevor if he wants to spend $50,000,000 on a motherboard. But to suggest that he is in it for charity is a joke. It is overpriced and consumers are not blame for his R&D budget blowout. However, there will always be people with more money than sense -- like those who purchased a Amiga from Commodore USA!