i had the opportunity to try a few things on the X1000 at amiwest this year. based on the contents of this thread i don't think it will make any difference; some of you are looking for things to complain about that don't exist. but here are a few subjective notes:

* web browsing was very snappy, almost as snappy as using my GNU/linux setup on a much, much faster PC. timberwolf and OWB were used, with both being about the same in parsing performance. last year at amiwest 2010 the performance wasn't nearly as good.

* PDF viewing was slow. i don't know why, but amiPDF performance on all OS4 systems is terribly pokey. based on an older build of xpdf, i suspect the issue is with the application itself.

* video playback seemed fine to me, actually. using DVplayer the DivX files i threw at it never showed a skipped frame. unfortunately i didn't have anything HD to try.

* classic performance was great. imageFX was noticeably faster than my SAM (as should be expected). the few AGA games running in UAE didn't show any frame redraw issues or sound latency issues such as i occasionally see on my SAM.

* quake2 ran well, but in software mode. i didn't do a timedemo, which i wish i had done. it was very smooth, much better than the 'whopping' 21.4fps i get with miniGL on my 9250/SAM setup. the old yarn about poor quake2 performance dates back more than a year to it being shown at the essen amiga show. guys: it isn't like that any more.

i found the machine to be the fastest amiga NG system i have used to date. is that worth the money? i don't know: that is up to the individual. personally i am very much interested in seeing the new openGL stack up and running first.

frankly i don't know why some of you guys have such a visceral reaction to this machine. it's very enjoyable to use, very performant, and very 'amiga.' i hope dave enjoys it and lets us know his thoughts, both good and otherwise, once he receives his from amigakit and has a few days to play with it.

-- eliyahu