Interesting things these price comparisons. Especially since the HW prices don't stay static.
What kind of Amiga was more expensive really (lets talk about actual value of the money and relative HW prices of similar spec systems from the period)?
My bare A500 was cheaper (4900FMK/~800€) but it was a low end machine.
My SAM (system) was cheaper (800€-1000€) but also it is a low end HW. (y1998 x86 performance? bought ten years later)
A2000 had 9000FMK/~1500€ price tag, less MIPS than on similarly priced PC systems of 1989, but ofcourse it then was not "behind" the mainstream at all (I got ~50% discount when mine was imported by my friend, not PCIDATA, IIRC list prices of my systems components was well above 20000FMK (1MCHIP,2MFAST,68000,20MB HDD,PC-XT-emu,NecMultisync)
A4000/040/6M cost 14500FMK/~2400€ without HDD (and in 1994 it already was behind high end PCs in many "numbers", year before it's list price was 17000FIM, IIRC)
In 1996/1997 I upgraded to 060/50 and it cost ~1200€ and it was years behind high end pentiums in pure numbers (and being only a CPU card)
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x1000 is a mix of 2005...2007 CPU performance (more than enough for all our available SW, more than I imagine I ever need (stupid me?)) + almost the most modern GPGPU bus, so (IMO) better price/performance than on SAM & others AOS systems.
And ofcourse I value AmigaSW a lot, while the mainstream laughs at it.
And and the geekport! ;-)
Outside the red "AOS" world:
(to me x1000 is like a 2995€ G5 HW that was sold as new 5 years ago, now the same Mac can be bought for about 500-600€ ? But it is old & used & has some older technologies, slower buses, more noice, etc.)
((My MOS HW cost 220€+the MOS. No sane people that already have moved to MOS is going to buy x1000, but I nowdays am a little bit multicoloured and in the between of the official OS and the other(s)))
Hopefully there will be low end models with the same SoC ASAP!
