This X5000 support is even more strange than the support for Sam 460. At least the Sam is "cheap" (but not really) and thus probably has 2-3x the userbase as the X1000 and X5000 can hope to accumulate *together* in their life spans. And still that won't be that many. IMHO it doesn't make sense.

But I see in bigfoot's post above that at least the Sam 460 resulted in "ironing out" some issues in Quark, which obviosly made it easier to port (given that it only took 2 days to get MorphOS booting on the X5000 thanks to this). And it possibly helps developing native drivers for new GFX cards. Both these things perhaps makes the X86 transition easier. Which IMHO would be the main benefit of this.

Because the X5000 is just as insane as the X1000, and just as with the X1000 it won't help OS4 in any way, and it will do even less for MorphOS. It takes a certain mind-set to buy €3,000+ EUR systems that is neither a chineese Power8 motherboard or at least a Mac Pro, and those who does it, does it only for OS4. For MorphOS there are far more suitable machines, and the X5000 will upon its launch come in second place compared to the fastest PPC Macs that MorphOS already supports, that's still available at a fraction of the cost.