Will you be buying an AmigaOne X1000 ?

[the_leander]

I still think the Pegasos ones seem to have been the best bet for a "modern amiga".

As far as I can tell, they weren't monster expensive. Of course things hadn't moved as far either at that point.

Tbh Peg2 was a much better all round system. It didn't have the issues that came with the Articia S chipset. It was also fairly inexpensive.

But Peg 1 and 2 were both cheaper than the AmigaOne. Peg2 was, iirc cheaper than the Sam as well.

These days, I think we're safely in "hobby only" territory.

It's a shame apparently so few people in the community realise this.

[Buzzfuzz]

It's a shame apparently so few people in the community realise this.

I realise it, but their are some great people out there still doing great work on hardware.
It could have been different, if the end of Commodore really had everyone pulling out and doing nothing, then Amiga's and other Commordores would have vanished by now.
 
I'm just glad the retro feel of all old Commodores and all other consoles for that matter have stayed trough time.

[tone007]

This whole Amiga thing is a real downer, man!

[lsmart]

Blender is a 3d rendering package, iirc the editor within it is suited solely for setting up scenes within the 3d environment.

It is definitely much more than this. There are tutorials on how to cut footage using Blender. It is powerful, yet somewhat unintuitive.

The X1000/SAM doesn't even offer that though. Not because of hardware limitations, but because there simply isn't the software.

Well there already is software to do e-mail, web surfing, irc, 3d rendering & movie editing, photo-management, word processing, retouche, painting, spreadsheets, dtp, games and software development. This is more than the original Amiga had in 1985. It might be enough for some people.

Try that on an iPad!

[ferrellsl]

@Piru

Some socialism has never killed many.

There are several million dead Russians who'd disagree with you.

[the_leander]

It is definitely much more than this. There are tutorials on how to cut footage using Blender. It is powerful, yet somewhat unintuitive.

2.43 and above only, and then only if you have a compatible version of ffmpeg installed.

Well there already is software to do e-mail, web surfing, irc, 3d rendering & movie editing, photo-management, word processing, retouche, painting, spreadsheets, dtp, games and software development. This is more than the original Amiga had in 1985. It might be enough for some people.

Try that on an iPad!

From the top, web surfing, so long as you don't mind not having java or flash, or indeed a usable browser, sure, you can browse. 3d rendering.. great, I can render like it's 1999!, photo management... Everything from feature phones upwards can do this, this isn't a feature, this is a baseline requirement to being taken seriously. Word Processing, so you can read and write to modern versions of Word documents, right? What's that, you cant? Then cross off that from the list. Painting, again, baseline, even my Tocco Lite has some basic retouching facilities. Spreadsheets, ok, great, again, can you read/write to excell or even OO.orgs file formats? DTP, heh... When I was big into the BeOS scene a few years back a friend of mine, someone who uses DTP professionally asked about Amiga DTP software and I pointed them to Pagestream, the comment I got back was "wait, people actually pay for this?".  Software development? Hah, you'll be damned hard pressed to find a more spartan environment for development than the Amiga.

Also, trying to compare a web pad to an alleged desktop computer? LOL!

[divined]

After following this thread for several days I discern an unoptimistic view of the future of Amiga. Well, Amiga OS 4.1 is not a top notch OS, not even remotely. It lacks many eases that are taken for granted on Windows and Apples, even on Linux.

  Nonetheless, the platform is still alive and with one way or another it is moving forward. Even new Amiga systems like the X1000 and the SAM boards still remain in the hobbyist domain, at least as I see them. I wouldn`t expect to get the same functionality as on my 4-core main desktop.

  But yet again, by using it, maybe even developing something for it, that just might be a little pebble that helps the Amiga live on. I just don`t expect it ever again to become my main computer!!

[persia]

@lsmart

Actually you can do that on an iPad!

[digitaldust]

I'm kinda at a depressed that commodore is gone and the little brown man killed it. I dont think i'd buy anything other then the rendered amiga 500 looking PC from commodoreusa.net. however that all fake anyhow.

Long Live the memory of J

[Methuselas]

There is a video editor in Blender. I haven´t really done anything with it, but it looked rather promising.

Trust me, it's nothing, compared to Premiere and After Effects, or Shake, which has been discontinued, sadly.

[Tension]

I wonder what A-Eon must be thinking!!