AmigaONE X1000 Free Shipping Offer

[Iggy]

thanks for stating the obvious.  Yes of course, this news is only for people already in the market to buy an X1000 and then of course it would be welcome news especially if you're ordering from the other side of the earth:)

As someone who regularly DOES ship half way around the world, shipping
isn't a very high percentage of this device's cost, but any savings would be welcome.

[Vlabguy1]

@carvedeye

There is a wafer thin margin on each X1000 sold, so we cannot go offering big discounts such as free shipping on a regular basis, otherwise there would be no point in us selling the unit in the first place.  The X1000 is a very costly piece of kit to manufacture.

Well..that begs the question.. Why manufaure the kit at all?  Doesn't seem all that
profitable.  What makes it so pricey? The lack of volume?

[amigakit]

Yes lack of volume- to make it significantly cheaper, units would have to be made in the 10,000 range.  Also CPU is not the cheapest available- prices have ranged from $600 - $1000 per CPU.

[kickstart]

And then when you offer free shipping, get complained at for "spamming" when a sysadmin posts the news.

Spam is not for this post is for hundreds of post, refer to x1000 with or without shipping, is expensive for a underpowered computer using the Amiga name.

[Iggy]

Well..that begs the question.. Why manufaure the kit at all?  Doesn't seem all that profitable...

Yep, and paying over $1000 for a PPC accelerator for a legacy machine doesn't make sense either, but we do it.

If a sub 300MHz board is worth $1000, a six times faster board at $3000 doesn't sound as unreasonable.

[Vlabguy1]

Yep, and paying over $1000 for a PPC accelerator for a legacy machine doesn't make sense either, but we do it.

If a sub 300MHz board is worth $1000, a six times faster board at $3000 doesn't sound as unreasonable.

Well the vintage Amiga stuff is most always $$.  How many of these have been sold?
If a PPC accelerator came up for say. $1,200  then that seems like a bargain in comparison.  So your logic works the opposite way as well. Not baggin on it..if I had a ton of disposable cash I might buy one.  Just was
stunned when I saw the price.

[AmigaClassicRule]

I was calculating how many A4000D I need to sell in order to get an X1000 I calculated that I need to sell 3 Amiga 4000D each going for 900 bucks...then an over buffed Amiga 1200 to obtain an X1000.

Now I do have an A4000D so even if I did manage to sell it and somehow did manage to get 900 buck...that by itself insufficient amount of cash to buy an x1000.

Now i make per month say anywhere between 400 to 600.  So even if I did manage to make 600 a month non-stop plus selling the A4000D it would take me 4 month to make up the price of an X1000. Then add to shipping and handling because there is no way this offer is lasting 4 month.

Now that is assuming my A4000D did indeed go for 900 and I did indeed make 600 a month and I did indeed not spend a single dime on it....and I did indeed thing it is worth purchasing...and I did indeed did not go crying spending 3.3k as I saw in my account I have 3.3k and then click buy for X1000 for 3.3k then in my balance shows 0.....and I look in my bank and saw I spend 3.3k for a computer...and I did not call 911 for mental hospital for spending 3.3k on a computer...assuming all of those obstacles have passed me...then I can afford me an X1000

Of course that is not going to happen...because A) I am not going to sell my A4000D as I use it to sleep in the night with it's sweet humming fans lol.

B) When I have 3.3k and since I am a console gamer..always have..always will be...I will have urge to spend games for my PS 4/PS 3...and will..other expenses..and I can never have this urge to have 3.3k and spend it all in one shot for a single PC when I have already a laptop x86, iBook G4 MorphOS and a huge strong x86 tower PC, plus my Amiga 4000D, Amiga 500, ipad and I have PS Vita, PS3, PS 4 and PS 2 I do not think I am crazy for OS 4.1.

[amoskodare]

Good offer for those who lives far away from UK and wants X1000 and OS4 :-)

Hit it now or never ;-)

[Lurch]

Not sure if you clicked the wrong link there, but the Canadian site shows $3314.52 CAD, the US site $2992.02 USD, the European site E2622.95 and the UK site £2149.96

Just clicking the Euro link in the OP's post.... as per screen shot...

[Lurch]

This thread demonstrates very well why there are so few Amiga developments..

Actually I'd be very happy with a second hand Sam440/460. The price seems to be around the 300-600 euros for a nice setup.

Even an older AmigaOne Xe would be nice. Now that's a bargain, but would need to sell my A1200T before I could buy one, but that would be a hard thing to do.

[utri007]

Actually I'd be very happy with a second hand Sam440/460. The price seems to be around the 300-600 euros for a nice setup.

Even an older AmigaOne Xe would be nice. Now that's a bargain, but would need to sell my A1200T before I could buy one, but that would be a hard thing to do.

Don't hesitate to buy one, you'll be happy with it. Main question is can you live without working 3D and wait it to complete? If you can buy 460 and if you don't have patience buy 440ep Flex.

300€ is not a big money for adult Considering how easily it can spend doing nothing

[Lurch]

Don't hesitate to buy one, you'll be happy with it. Main question is can you live without working 3D and wait it to complete? If you can buy 460 and if you don't have patience buy 440ep Flex.

300¤ is not a big money for adult Considering how easily it can spend doing nothing

Look it at another way it's cheaper than a PPC card and faster by some margin too :-)

Going by what I've seen the sam440ep flex is ample power for the applications out there. Seems to browse okay too :-)

[wawrzon]

Actually I'd be very happy with a second hand Sam440/460. The price seems to be around the 300-600 euros for a nice setup.

Even an older AmigaOne Xe would be nice. Now that's a bargain, but would need to sell my A1200T before I could buy one, but that would be a hard thing to do.

if you are going to sell a truly genuine machine of sentimental value to get a computer that runs the same software under emulation plus can run some linux ports, then considering all aspects you might be better off with a pc.

[utri007]

if you are going to sell a truly genuine machine of sentimental value to get a computer that runs the same software under emulation plus can run some linux ports, then considering all aspects you might be better off with a pc.

At least partially true, but we are all different. I have sold only one Amiga and regret it a lot.

Amigas has a hobby value, most likely you woun't ever get back what you sell today.

With sam flex you can do most of dayli tasks like surfing web watching PAL/NTSC quality movies etc. but it is stilla a hobby machine.

PS. I bought a new amiga last week, now I trying to build like the one I had before I'm looking CDTV keyboard, wireless mouse and diskdrive.

[LiveForIt]

@wawrzon

if you are going to sell a truly genuine machine of sentimental value

What makes you sentimental?
the things you can do on it?
How you use it?
Or the smell of old dust inside the computer?

to get a computer that runs the same software under emulation.

AmigaOS4 Software is not running under emulation, if you like new programs and the OS, more then you like old Amiga500 games.

If getting on the Internet is important to you then AmigaOS4 on new PowerPC computer is way better to use then AmigaOS3 whit old browser.

plus can run some Linux ports, then considering all aspects you might be better off with a pc.

No one is forced you to run Linux ports, there are other programs to use as well, that do not come from Linux. The problem whit AmigaOS3 software is that its old.

Take Dpaint or Ppaint, this are arguably the best paint programs for AmigaOS, but they do not support 32bit and does not support a lot features not compared to modern paint programs.

People need software and it has to come from some where, if a AmigaOS3 program that has been updated, or if its a Linux program that has rewritten to run on AmigaOS4, or AmigaOS3 make little difference to the user.

Its a bit like companing that you can run DukeNuke'em 3D or DOOM on Classic Amiga. Originally this where PC games or MSDOS, you don't go telling people to run MSDOS instead of AmigaOS, because the games comes from MSDOS.

Most of the Amiga games where ported to AmigaOS, even in 1980's and 1990's. Many games came from C64, some came from MSDOS, some came from Atari.

[amigakit]

The RadeonHD v1.0 driver has today been released for FREE for all AmigaONE X1000 users.