True, but a niche machine that just might sell a few tens of thousands. You don't have to take on the big guys to survive, just carve out a big enough niche. A lot of companies work this way.
What niche could an Amiga possible take?!
There is currently only one single app that is vaguely interesting, and it is Hollywood - there is no _need_ for a powerhouse amiga, there's a desperate need for _low price_ amiga.
The idea that X1000 must be high end because the A1000 was high end is just bogus - it was not the A1000 that made amiga, it was much more the A500 that made the amiga popular and that earned money. This platform desperatly needs more developers, what is needed is cheap hardware and a unique and excellent developer environment - expencive hardware and crippled OS does not attract anything.
The X1000 is a decent low mid-range computer that has some unique features, these features are a hook that will grab hobbyists who are interested in something different. Combined with clever advertising, they can do well.
What unique features? The only unique feature I can see is the price. The only thing different with it is this useless xorro slot and whatever junk they put in it - the same junk can also be bought on PCI/PCIe cards and be used on PCs, but for some weird reason PC builders dont enforce them onto the consumers, like Hyperion is trying to do here.
To call SAM400 "entry level" with the price tag it has is just stupid, my brand new CBM-A1200 in 1994 costed less than SAM440, alot less - that was entry level, and in a time when the PCs costed 4-5 times as much.
But again - if they make Amiga keyboards for the X1000, I'll get a handfull.
And wait for the el cheapo X500, or whatever they will call it.
