Given x1000 news is everywhere.....but nonchalance prevails

[redrumloa]

Until we know price for sure, there is little point talking about it.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=31869&forum=33&start=100&viewmode=flat&order=0#566219

No confusion about the price at all.

Amiga1Productions  YouTube video allows you to see the answer yourself;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaSN3IuZII

at  5:20 into the video the exchange ls;

Question : "How much is it  gonna cost?"
Answer : "I dunno, I really don't know. It's gonna be  north of £1,500. Definatly. It can't be any cheaper"

[the_leander]

Spot the MorphOS fanboy.  MorphOS is not Amiga at all, nor is Aros and neither should claim to be.

Spot the OS4 fanboy. OS4 is not Amiga at all, and shouldn't claim to be.
Works both ways sunshine.

I agree about the price to a certain extent, but so annoying when people come up with unfounded statistics like 99%. =p

Happy to be in the 1%.

Thing is, with each new "nextgen Amiga" that a good portion of the community surrounding it peal off due to the poor price/performance ratio. So right now you're in the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.

Until we know price for sure, there is little point talking about it.

I think Trevor publicly stating the projected price makes it fairly certain. In fact the only real uncertainty is just how far "north of £1500" it ends up being.

[Piru]

Anyways the price hasn't even been announced yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaSN3IuZII#t=5m18s

You were saying?

[djrikki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaSN3IuZII#t=5m18s

I was there.  They didn't actually announce a price; only hinted.

[the_leander]

I was there.  They didn't actually announce a price; only hinted.

Apparently Grimsby doesn't teach the same English language as the rest of the English speaking world...

Which part of:

at 5:20 into the video the exchange ls;

Question : "How much is it gonna cost?"
Answer : "I dunno, I really don't know. It's gonna be north of £1,500. Definatly. It can't be any cheaper"

is unclear exactly? Seriously how much more of a flat out statement do you need?

[Piru]

I was there.  They didn't actually announce a price; only hinted.

He was quite certain about the price there ("north of £1500 ... definitely").

So is it definitely or not? You'd think he'd know.

It appears that Ben Hermans is at his usual crisis management mode, claiming that the price will get reduced ("price shaving" as he put it).

So which is it? I'd be inclined to believe Trevor over this Ben (hermans has been known to spread misinformation in numerous occasions before)

[Karlos]

only hinted.

In the same way a burning cross on the lawn of a black family's house in the US "deep south" 50 years ago hinted they weren't entirely welcome by everybody in their local home owner's association...

[itix]

Happy to be in the 1%.  Anyways the price hasn't even been announced yet and maybe not as expensive as feared.  Anything can happen between now and then, I am sure A-Eon and Hyperion are always on the hunt for investors with capital.

And having more investors would make it more affordable...

[Gulliver]

He was quite certain about the price there ("north of £1500 ... definitely").

So is it definitely or not?

No Piru, what you are not seeing is that the magnetic pole has changed! Accept it!

[dammy]

Spot the MorphOS fanboy.  MorphOS is not Amiga at all, nor is Aros and neither should claim to be. So your signature makes no sense and how can OS4 be considered redundant when the MorphOS community (or lack there of) is even more fragmented than the real deal.

If it does not run on my A500, it's not the real deal.

[Louis Dias]

I don't understand this place.

If you want Amiga on x86, we already have that.  It's called AROS.
You want custom hardware - suprise!  All PC hardware is custom hardware.  What makes it work the same is drivers that allow the operating system (Windows [insert your favorite version here]) talk to it in a uniform manner.  That operating system can now be replaced with OSX, Linux, AROS and a dozen others, all that needs to change is the driver that the OS likes.

Oh, you don't like x86?  If you are not a programmer, go stick a finger in your bottom because wtf should that matter to you?

Otherwise, here is your new and relatively modern hardware running an official Amiga OS - take it or leave it.

As an alternative, NATAMI is your future.  That's going to have 1/8 the power for 1/2 the price of an X1000.

Yes, NATAMI can surf the web now.
http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=11215&x=28

[runequester]

Everyone is convinced that only one option is the REAL amiga. It's just that nobody agrees which option that is

[Karlos]

everyone is convinced that only one option is the real amiga. It's just that nobody agrees which option that is

qft.

[XDelusion]

I'm just looking for something that can grate cheese efficiently.

[takemehomegrandma]

how can OS4 be considered redundant

If you make a straight comparison on the following key areas...

Performance
Features
Amiga compatibility
Supported HW platforms (Price, Performance, "Bang for the Buck")

...you will see what I'm talking about. The first point, "performance", was covered in great detail by obligement.free.fr some time ago. Maybe it's time we compile detailed comparison charts for the other key areas as well? Could be done quite easily, and maybe that will help people as yourself to understand its redundancy...

[the_leander]

As an alternative, NATAMI is your future.

Or by the same token - MiniMig.