New Amiga - The AmigaOne X1000

[Puni/Void]

Hyperion Entertainment and A-EON announced a new computer today. Say hello to the AmigaOne X1000!

For more information, click on the link below:

http://www.a-eon.com/6.html

This project looks VERY interesting and it will be exciting to follow the news during the next weeks.

It's to time to celebrate with the dancing bananas!!

[Harrison]

Thanks for the info PG!

Sounds very interesting. I just hope it becomes reality, and not just stuck in a development limbo like so many Amiga hardware projects of recent years.

[outlawal2]

SOUNDS fantastic...

I am concerned ,however; about the PRICE of this new system should it actually be built... The website states that LOW-END systems are well represented by the current SAM offerings... While this is true, they are already prohibitively expensive and if they are supposed to be the low end part of the market, just what the HECK will they charge at the high end that the X is supposed to fill?

It will REALLY suck to finally have a modern high horsepower Amiga alternative that is way too expensive to be viable...

I am excited and dismayed all at the same time...

[Harrison]

Very true. I always thought the SAM was way over priced, so never bought on. And it is the problem when something is being produced in limit production runs for a market that has a finite number of possible sales. Which is true of any hobbyist market locked into dated hardware.

Another reason to argue for moving future development of OS4 to X86.

[J T]

Without meaning to be rude, that website is quite shoddy looking.

Loving the bananas though, Puni

[outlawal2]

I posted this on another site and thought I would post here as well...

OK a lot of folks are complaining that this machine isn't the killer box that we all want... This may be true, but look at things from the point of view of the business man trying to make a buck. They have to generate enough cash to sustain this project and you can't do that by creating a machine that costs $10,000... (Ask Steve Jobs about the Lisa)

Soo with that in mind, here is what I would do if I were king..

Work alongside Acube so they could continue refining the SAM as an entry level machine.

1) Release the new X1000 with a price point of about $1100. US
Let the Amiga community play with it, revise it, make interesting use of it's new features etc...
While that is happening...
2) Acube refines the SAM and adds WIFI and tweaks it to fit into a NETBOOK package and call it something like the AMIBOOK. Bundle a flavor of Linux with it... An easy and friendly version like Ubuntu. This is CRUCIAL to my plan.) Create a truly KILLER browser for OS4.x and include it and a decent email program in this netbook
3) Find a store that has a decent infrastructure to sell these things. (An upscale store would be best and market this as an upscale Netbook)
By packaging Linux you get the Linux crowd interested, and once they are our numbers will double overnite AND we will gain programmers as well. Also, remember that Netbooks only need to do 3 things. Connect WIFI, SURF and email. We all know OS4 does a LOT more, but these 3 are VITAL to making this work.
4) Now that we have gained notice with a killer Netbook and the magazines are favorably reviewing them, take the proceeds from the Netbook sales and hire a few folks to help with programming, updates and such and then...
5) NOW create the killer machine that we all want, because now there is a decent customer base to work with, reducing the costs. Also, by this time there will be enough positive buzz that some software and hardware companies will be interested and NOW WE HAVE OUR BELOVED AMIGA BACK!

[Puni/Void]

The news of the new Amiga has now reached one of Norway's largest newspapers. You can find the article here:

http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/01/07/k...re_64/9815310/

Here it is in English through Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/translat...2F&sl=no&tl=en

The word is spreading folks!

[Tiago]

There are some videos on youtube (september 2010) about the X1000, looks like they anounce it and make some presentations in expositions...

But i cannot find and estimated price for the system..... i wounder if they would sell the full system Mboard+hd+case etc... and if they will sell only the M.Board... anyone would like to guess a price for it?

[Harrison]

@Tiago. We can now link youtube videos in posts on the forum, so if you find any good ones showing off the system please do link them into this thread.

[Tiago]

ok, let me try youtube:

Check it out, Amiga X1000 in action