Holy Cow! My X1000 arrived today in USA !!!

[amigasociety]

Wow, I was not expecting it until tomorrow, Friday the 3rd, at the earliest.

Even Fed/X website showed it just leaving Memphis TN yesterday so I thought the 3rd would not even happen and be more like next week via ground service.

This shipped on Monday from the Amigakit in UK and arrived just 3 days later to my home.

Wow, is that awesome or what.

I guess Fed/X is using a super fast AmigaOne X1000 to run their operations now because I sure received mine fast fast fast.  

Now, just need to find some time to open the box up.

TJ

[VingtTrois]

Congratulations !!!!
You're lucky. But now, you have ALL to do.

[AmigaClassicRule]

I do not get it. How can you order Amiga X1000 when it is not for sale from the first place? It is not available in AmigaKit or any other amiga online store. So where did you exactly buy it from? I am super confused now.

[jorkany]

I do not get it. How can you order Amiga X1000 when it is not for sale from the first place? It is not available in AmigaKit or any other amiga online store. So where did you exactly buy it from? I am super confused now.

A-eon announced a preorder scheme in conjunction with AmigaKit back in Oct. 2011. This preorder was referred to as "First Contact". That's where these units are coming from, but the order period for them ended some time ago, hence no more orders.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Any idea then when we can order these computers again? Are they planning on releasing new batches again and are there plans for future Amiga hardware development or this is the end for Amiga hardware?

[amigasociety]

Just a little video of the box and my excitement to just learn my AmigaOne X1000 arrived a day earlier than expected.  Will do more videos of unboxing later when I am able.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1h0pEM5R6M

tj

[Derfs]

a second batch has been announced, as the 'first contact' batch were all reserved in a few days when Amigakit started orders in december. there will be more hardware for AOS4.x available (a netbook has been announced).

[jorkany]

a second batch has been announced

Link?

[Piru]

@amigasociety

Congratulations! While I personally don't consider X1000 viable solution I'm sure you will have ton of fun with it.

If you have any spare time could you please try to run a small benchmark for us? Here are the instructions:

• Download AKsack.wav
  
• Download lame.lha
  
• Unarchive lame.lha and then run the following command:
  Code: [Select]
  lame-398-4/bin/lame.g4-3.98.2 AKsack.wav
• Post the result here.

Thank you in advance!

*EDIT* No need to anymore, as Hans_ was kind enough to post the results here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=678876&postcount=55

[Kesa]

Wow, I was not expecting it until tomorrow, Friday the 3rd, at the earliest.

Even Fed/X website showed it just leaving Memphis TN yesterday so I thought the 3rd would not even happen and be more like next week via ground service.

This shipped on Monday from the Amigakit in UK and arrived just 3 days later to my home.

Wow, is that awesome or what.

I guess Fed/X is using a super fast AmigaOne X1000 to run their operations now because I sure received mine fast fast fast.  

Now, just need to find some time to open the box up.

TJ

But, today is Friday the 3rd... :confused:

[weirdami]

But, today is Friday the 3rd... :confused:

Yoranus is in a different time zone.

[Kesa]

Yoranus is in a different time zone.

Yep, I am actually typing this from the future right now  :p

Anyway i think it's great these things have finally come out. It's been a long time coming. It gives me hope about NatAmi releasing something one day too

[paul1981]

@amigasociety

Congratulations! While I personally don't consider X1000 viable solution I'm sure you will have ton of fun with it.

If you have any spare time could you please try to run a small benchmark for us? Here are the instructions:

• Download AKsack.wav
  
• Download lame.lha
  
• Unarchive lame.lha and then run the following command:
  Code: [Select]
  lame-398-4/bin/lame.g4-3.98.2 AKsack.wav
• Post the result here.

Thank you in advance!

You're such a gentleman Piru. :-P

[haywirepc]

Piru,

I don't understand, how is running an mp3 encoder (Isn't that what lame is?) a good benchmark?
 
Wouldn't releasing render times against the nda? Wouldn't that violate the nda they had to sign? I'm curious myself if its ****ball slow as I suspect it will be...
 
I think high end g4 macs will be faster at this test, g5's even faster....
 
Would be interesting to see....
 
Oh the original poster, while I appreciate your excitement, posting a youtube video of a box is not quite as exciting as you must have imagined it would be for those of us watching that.... Oh boy! A box!
 
Steven

[amigasociety]

Thanks Piru and all other folks!

Would like to let you know I have a beefy Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz sitting right next to it with 3 matching external Hub/Drives (LaCie Mini & 2 MiniStacks) that will one day run MorphOS 3.  :biglaugh:

I have the timing out 2.7 on it now as I just started tinkering and when I am able, and 3.0 MOS is out, I will also have a MiniMOS system to enjoy side by side with my X1000.

TJ

@amigasociety

Congratulations! While I personally don't consider X1000 viable solution I'm sure you will have ton of fun with it.

If you have any spare time could you please try to run a small benchmark for us? Here are the instructions:

• Download AKsack.wav
  
• Download lame.lha
  
• Unarchive lame.lha and then run the following command:
  Code: [Select]
  lame-398-4/bin/lame.g4-3.98.2 AKsack.wav
• Post the result here.

Thank you in advance!

*EDIT* No need to anymore, as Hans_ was kind enough to post the results here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=678876&postcount=55