I just tire of the yammering on about these "new Commodore" and "new Amiga" machines on sites like A.org, and I for one hope I never see another thread about either of them now that "the air has been cleared".
We got guys busting their asses - the Natami guys, Mike and crew with the FPGA Arcade board, stuff like the ACA boards, ZorRam. MorphOS, AmigaOS, and AROS all offering very nice offerings of the Amiga experience. We have more choice than we ever had in regards to "The Amiga Experience", really. While we may fight and bicker between the camps, at the end of the day we do all truly know we are on the same boat.
Yet we waste our time dancing around with this C-USA nonsense - commodity hardware with a rebadged Linux distro, from a company that clearly has no intentions in offering anything to anyone wanting something that actually resembles an "Amiga".
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I understand the retro market. I do understand why someone buys a C64x. I do understand and fully realize there are people that will buy the "Amiga Mini" in some attempt to revisit their glory days back when they had a real Amiga. I'm entirely comfortable with the concept of "a fool and his money are soon parted", and I'm entirely comfortable in the fact their products are not for me. I hope C-USA makes a good PC that people are happy with if they purchase one.
Why the angle keeps getting spun that it's the "haters" that have kept them as a topic on true Amiga sites, that one baffles me. I wonder why they are even mentioned at all - they are a commodity PC assembler/rebadger, and Gateway has more true Amiga street cred than C-USA. It baffles me why every time C-USA so much as squeaks out a muted fart, the powers that be here are front paging it. All I can come up with is they are trying to drive pageviews, and I see that as costing this site and others like it a lot of the old timer traffic.
People come here primarily to discuss the Amiga. How you define "Amiga" is up to you. It might be legacy, it might be FPGA, or AROS, MOS, AOS, or emulation. Whatever floats your boat. Isn't a damned thing Amiga about anything that will ever come out of Commodore USA other than engraving on a Chinese case filled with x86 components, running Linux with a custom skin.