Call me insane if you like but I think I want an X1000 now :)

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Title says it all really, what does a man who has almost everything get next?

5 years from now when X1000s will be as rare as rocking horse doo-doo coated in crushed hens teeth it will make sense. Beyond CPU speed or driver issues or dog slow PS1 emulation (meaning you still can't play Wipeout 2097 a la PPC based A4000) it will be a unique computer. It will be just like my Memotech MTX512 and FDX disk expansion on my desk.

Yup I think I will get myself one for Xmas.....Jesus may weep but I will have a one of a kind super kooky machine just like last decade with my NEXT machines

Well, I have recently got one - AmigaOS in 1920x1080, 7.1 sound, 2GB FAST RAM running on Radeon 6800 HD series card ... It will be rarity but useful one. Linux 12.04 LTS with Libre does greatly what AmigaOS can‚t at the moment and uses both cores, 3D accel and sees beyond 2GB RAM and 256MB VRAM (chip) :-)

Only reason why you can‚t run WIpeout 2097 is that warpos.library and powerpc.library haven‚t been updated since original AmigaOne days and don‚t work on X1000. Haven‚t installed PS1 emulator, but if it can‚t be done under OS4, can under Linux. Hope AOS will quickly use the board to the full, since I paid for that OS 4.2 license too, in advance :hammer:

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If I think buying an X1000 is a bad idea, that automatically makes me a troll? ;-)

People decide what they do with their own money and desires. I could buy new MacPro, but picked X1000, because its most advanced Amiga like system I can have. By using very nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, many of AmigaOS shortcomings can be covered on same machine.

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Each to their own of course but if you want to run Ubuntu you could get exactly the same experience (well probably an even better experience) for less money with a x86 box and an Amiga sticker.

I don't really see the point of buying an NG Amiga and then running Unix on it, I know of one X1000 owner who uses Unix almost exclusively on his X1000.

It's like they're saying that OS4 is not up to the job so you're better off with running some other OS on your OS4 machine, this seems very strange to me.

I think Commodore did something similar with the classics back-in-day when they released x86 daughter boards for the 68k computers, also very strange IMHO.

Well, handling modern documents, having complete modern Firefox and so on from software side is bonus. Not that I don`t have it on Linux Mint on x86 laptop, but its nice its the same apps I do know on Linux (and can use as open source software even on Windows if I would like to)

And plus full utilization of hardware to the full (3D of RadeonHd, over 2GB RAM, dual core).

I am not saying I have bought X1000 to run AmigaOS 4, but that most things people joke about on OS4 (e.g. $2000 machine and not even a decent browser ...) can meanwhile be solved by dual boot. On same $2000 machine.

Looking forward to see and feel OS 4.2 as that was OS that was supposed to go with X1000 :-)

For example, this I can   do from OS 4.1.6 and TW - forum reading.

I am not sure about your last comment. x86 emulator was presented with Amiga 1000, see Amiga Premiere video on You Tube / Amiga Forever bonus DVD. Idea was to provide acess to some mainstream apps that did not exist for Amiga - that is only similarity. Its not the OS that is not to the task, its simple lack of apps in some areas

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X1000 results on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS PPC64

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1310106-AR-AMIGAONE027

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They were 68k based. There was a beta tester legion (about 150) who had OS 3.9 as base install and downloaded new 68k based 4.0 components from FTP when they were made available.

(I used to know OS4 beta tester who was eagerly testing 4.0 on his A1200 or A4000 and he didnt have PPC.)

Yes, as well as some small components could be leeched later. But that is A-EONs away from what OS 4.x is today :-)

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/TechDetails2.htm