ferrels on amigaworld.net:

"There were/are plenty of people using hacked copies of OS4.0 on their PegII's long before OS4.1 was officially released for it. [...] Several people on the Morphzone sent me PMs volunteering to help me get OS4 running on my own PegII back in 2006! And no, I will not divulge their names."

Now it's time to stand up, you, the people ferrels is refering to ;-)

> Question is how much of that is just hidden OS-costs (OEM fees/licenses).

You mean beside the openly stated OS4 OEM costs paid to Hyperion?

> out of the suggested price differential of 1200-1400€ between X5000
> and Tabor how much is due to the better SoC

The price difference of the SoC alone is 150 to 200 EUR.

> where in hell did the remaining 1195-1395€ go !!!!

A-Eon says the A1222/Tabor will be sold at cost, opposed to the X5000/Cyrus. I guess that one product cross-subsidizes the other product.

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I wouldn't place much faith on what Steve has to say.
He likes making blanket statements without documentation.

Getting OS4 to run on a Peg2 would have required drivers to work with the new Northbridge used on that board.

Its not just a "hack".

In fact, it would be much easier to "hack" a Peg1 to run that OS.

> Getting OS4 to run on a Peg2 would have required drivers to work
> with the new Northbridge used on that board. Its not just a "hack".
> In fact, it would be much easier to "hack" a Peg1 to run that OS.

Yes, essentially what ASiegel said in comment #20, except that OS4 would have to be hacked to run on the Peg1 (not the other way round) :-)