First the sad news:The AresOne Mini 1000 and 1600 are no more available.
Now the good news:ARES m-7 is now the most sold ARES system ever, followed by ARES One 2010.The difference may be that the AresOne was really bought by Amigans... I believe it is different with the m-7.The Ares m-7 will be continued as long as possible.
It features Firmware updates over Internet (without OS). Boots in seconds (<5). Ubuntu is in 2 seconds up. I didn't test Win8 yet. Measured from pressing the power-button.
In 2014 we will have 3 different platforms:
Ares Cube (S, M, L ) (Intel Celeron, i5, i7)
AresOne (surprise)
Ares m-7(i7) becomes xE2(Xeon E2)
Now the real buyable news: ...........
Put that aside! I have found that AROS is releasing a PPC AROS computer that allows AmigaOS 4.1 to work on it? Is that confirmed 100%? I notice that it is still cheaper to get a PPC clone to run AmigaoS 4.1, plus all the flavors of AROS and possibly even MorpOS all in one system...then to spend 3k USA to buy an Amiga brand name hardware that only runs AmigaOS 4.1 and Linux and nothing else.
However, can I order the PPC from AmigaKit or Versatile website?