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I see x1000 mainly a platform to develop SMP/multicore stuff on. And to build support for modern things like for PCIex16 GPUs, large RAM, etc.
For users it should not be that interesting because of the price.

x1000 seems to perform as (realists) expected. xcore/xena tools (+HW) seem to be coming out little by little (even though it's not known what all it will be used at this point).

x1000 is so expensive and complex that it's production is not simple to arrange. I doubt it's possible "temporary unavailability" is a big problem, because rare people can afford it.

(but for example I see it more appealing than any water cooled "wind tunnel" G5 Mac, even if MOS or AOS4 existed for G5. But I buy neither.)

I have not monitored/compared if AOS4 development has slowed down in general. New third party stuff at least appear at good pace, almost daily (perhaps the strongest point of AOS4 branch). OS updates seem to come in ok pace. And there seems to be new HW in production and more are in the works, as we know. +AOS4 supports also legacy and peg2 and who knows what in the future.
And it's the only Amigalike OS I can for example access my NAS GUI.

Stability, speedup, drivers are the weak points. AOS4 has no matured as nicely as MOS. At this rate also AROS can catch up AOS4.(reminds me that I should re-check it)

Every flavour has it's own strengths and soft spots. I love the fact that there is AOS variant that stays on PPC also in future (untill I see better x86/ARM SOCs at least.

[ Edited by KimmoK 13.06.2012 - 12:26 ]