AmigaONE X5000 (A-Eon Technology Ltd on Facebook)

[Djole]

I read a lot of comments here with the phrases they need to do this or they need to do  that. They dont need to do anything, they can do whatever they want and make whatever  hw they want and sell at any price they want. Dont like it ? Dont buy it...

[OlafS3]

   And the funny part is that many of the loudest complainers, are mos and aros fanboys. Who will never get os4.

 

And even more funny is that some of the loudest AmigaOS fanboys are not even owning it

[OlafS3]

LOL :-)

good explanation

[OlafS3]

Are you a politician by chance?

As I understand it Andre only mentioned the board because it long in production in opposite to what people claim about X86/X64 boards. Some even say ARM or X86/x64 custom hardware would be as expensive as custom PPC hardware. That might be but who on earth would even think about building custom hardware when there are plenty of choices available.

So (in short) Andre mentioned it because of the long period it is available and not because it is the best choice on market.

[WolfToTheMoon]

Look at this

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/01/60-bay-trail-d-motherboard-shipping.html


And a quad-core version will be available for 70$! Awesome!

[persia]

Well for US$ 60 it better be faster than the X1000.

Look at this

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/01/60-bay-trail-d-motherboard-shipping.html


And a quad-core version will be available for 70$! Awesome!

[WolfToTheMoon]

Well for US$ 60 it better be faster than the X1000.

it is :biglaugh:

[agami]

...

Look on ebay for xenon workstations.  You can get a dual cpu 4 core xenon
workstation used for 5x cheaper than this things price.

.

Muchos gracias haywirepc for bringing this to my intention. I can't believe it didn't occur to me sooner, mainly because I've been buying used multicore Xeon servers  for extremely low prices for my CloudStack farm e.g. HP Proliant DL380 G5 2 x Quad Core Xeon @ 2.66 GHz (total 16 threads) with 32 GB RAM, SAS drives and so on, for around A$500.00

The beauty of of cloud infrastructure platforms like OpenStack and CloudStack is that you don't need the redundant power supplies and RAID controllers so these workstations are a perfect fit.

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[wawrzon]

Nobody said that was the reason you're a wacko.:destroy:

:facepalm:

[Iggy]

:facepalm:

Sorry (sort of) I couldn't resist.
Besides, we are taking this entirely too seriously.

[Iggy]

Look at this

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/01/60-bay-trail-d-motherboard-shipping.html


And a quad-core version will be available for 70$! Awesome!

A. No one has this.
B. Its a dual core.
C. Even this version costs as much as you are quoting (I don't see a quad core version).
D. Compared to other X64 hardware, it is slow.
E. It doesn't run OS4.

[Hattig]

A. No one has this.
B. Its a dual core.
C. Even this version costs as much as you are quoting (I don't see a quad core version).
D. Compared to other X64 hardware, it is slow.
E. It doesn't run OS4.

No one has an X5000 either.
There's a quad-core version option for $10 more.
A total of $70.
It's slower than other hardware, but it's not a total dog, being Bay Trail based.

But yes, it doesn't run OS4, and is therefore useless if that's what you want. :-)

[nicholas]

I've often thought that should Hyperion release OS4 for QEMU they'd sell quite a good few more licences.

It'd probably run faster on an i7 emulated than it does on an X1000, most certainly faster than a SAM.

Same goes for MorphOS before the church goers get their knickers in a twist.

[WolfToTheMoon]

A. No one has this.
B. Its a dual core.
C. Even this version costs as much as you are quoting (I don't see a quad core version).
D. Compared to other X64 hardware, it is slow.
E. It doesn't run OS4.

it's just an indication of how ridiculously underpowered and overpriced this custom PPC hardware is in 2013.

BTW, a quad core atom Z3770 is faster than a quad PPC970MP system at 2.5 GHz. So it is not slow, especially for 70 $

[yssing]

So why don't you stick with x86, AROS or WinUAE?

Let the rest of us enjoy good news about new hardware.

[nicholas]

So why don't you stick with x86, AROS or WinUAE?

Let the rest of us enjoy good news about new hardware.

Perhaps it's because he's a potential customer and customer feedback is always good.