The Best Things Come In Small Packages

[Tripitaka]

Someone at CUSA misread the calender. This thread is 11 days early!

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Interesting how all the power calculators I check tell me a system like that would require a 500-600W PSU. How the hell is this going to run on the PSU supplied? I look forward to the reviews from the customers, provided they escape the inevitable house fire of course. As for this being an Amiga, yeah.... . whatever!

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Does it run Workbench or AmigaOS ?

Yeah it does, but only if you run UAE. I have enough plenty of machines that can do that, including my original XBox and my PC.

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This shows 51-202 watts drawn:
 
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1751/14/
 
 
In order to get a review from a customer, you would have to find a sucker that is going to pay $2500 for a (at best) $1300 computer.  
 
If anyone is going to buy one of these, please show yourself somewhere!  You won't be hurt or flamed - I just want to understand who is motivated to buy one of these.  What is the target market?
 
I don't even see anyone on CUSA's forum that claims they are buying one.  The only thing that will catch fire is the single protype that will eventually get made (since apparantly none exist and they need to photoshop everything).

That power draw is still too much for the PSU and I have to say, thanks for the post, you made me laugh.

Maybe in 15 years someone will sell the burnt out prototype on ebay for a thousand bucks.

It was interesting to see how much power calculators exaggerated  the need for wattage however.

This is Thermaltake's calculator:

http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/

 it'll give you a rating over 500W that's for sure. .... Maybe the're trying to sell us something, like a bigger PSU perhaps.

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Far from it. Dvd's and blurays are selling like never before, and 3d will boost bluray sells even more.

You are correct. DVD and Blu-Ray sales have both climbed over recent years and for those who are interested DVD outsells Blu-Ray about 3:1. However the comparative increase of both would give us about another 5 years before before Blu-Ray sales are as good as DVD sales. DVD still rules the roost it seems, perhaps not so surprising when one considers that the DVD player had the fastest take up rate of any consumer electronics device ever sold. The odd release does buck the trend however.

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Are you sure? I think DVD was out in 1996, but didn't really take off until 2001... I could be wrong I'm pulling numbers from memory here... But that's is quite a long uptake time, granted it could well be quicker than any other technology... But I'm not yet convinced.

The DVD format was introduced in 1996, that is quite correct. However, this does not mark the introduction of players to the consumer. The format was test marketed in the USA in 1997, Europe in 1998 and Australia in 1999. By 2000 I had plenty of authoring work (that was my job). The uptake of DVD players was boosted hugely by PC drives and consoles of course and these are often counted when considering "DVD players".

It is worth noting too that this record has been thrashed by the Wii, iPad, iPhone 4 and Kinect so I should have said that the DVD player WAS the fastest selling of any consumer electronics devices at the time.

DVD owes a large part of it's success to a guy called Tony Choi. He is known as the worlds biggest user of plastic and set up six DVD production lines before most people had any idea what DVD was, if it contains plastic and is made in China, tony probably has something to do with it. I met Tony a couple of times, he's one of those guys that doesn't guess the future, he just makes it happen.

Just for the record I also hate moving parts in my computers. I do however like physical media. USB media would have been ideal IMHO but has sadly never caught on.

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CUSA's claim that this is the first new 'Amiga' for years in technically correct.  Eyetech, Acube, Hyperion, Aeon et al never had the rights to use the Amiga name, only 'Amigaone'.
So, this is, literally, the first new 'Amiga' computer since the A4000T in, what, 1997-ish?

I just wonder if Jay Miner would have been happy about it being called an Amiga. I very much doubt it.

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cusa could have supported aros, that was their intention at first but then as they discovered they couldnt just borrow it for free, but actually had to pay to support it. cusa got on its high horse and started spewing crap all over the community. cusa have corned it self as the fool and they do it again and again, never learn. they could have got aros and supported it, then they have been accepted in the amiga community.

I for one would have had a bit more respect for them if they had done so. Instead they did the intellectual equivalence of defecating on Jay Miners grave.

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And like all here I want to see Commodore & Amiga back as a great brand with great innovative products...eventually with their own engineering team to develop customized chipsets like the old days. To me the Intel platform for them is just a stepping stone....it's just the start.

Perhaps if they had made new "Commodore PCs" and cases whilst leaving off the Amiga logo until they had something worthy of it they could have built up some respect. Even then the PCs would need to be competitive.

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Ha, Commodore USA has small packages.

I thought them pretty big and made of brass to try this sh1t on us.

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@vexar

If your after something small and powerful check out the Alienware X51:

http://www.alienware.com/Landings/desktops.aspx

Now this is the sort of machine CUSA should have made (as a Commodore PC not an "Amiga" I might add). Once they got some respect for doing great Commodore PCs then they could have made an Amiga worth calling an Amiga. They didn't do this however, instead they FAIL!

This system:

Alienware X51
OPERATING SYSTEM   Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English   
PROCESSOR   Intel® Core™ i7-2600 3.4GHz (8MB Cache) with Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost Technology 2.0   
MEMORY   8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz   
CHASSIS COLOR   Matte Stealth Black with Dark Chrome Accents   
VIDEO CARD   1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 555   
HARD DRIVE   1TB SATA 6Gb/s (7,200RPM) 32MB Cache   
WIRELESS   DW1502 Wireless-N WLAN Half Mini-Card

With a 4 year guarantee and 4 years unlimited phone support plus guaranteed discount upgrade option, this setup still comes in at $1,768.00 with a keyboard and mouse. Why does anyone need an Amiga mini? You can of course build the system quite a bit cheaper without all the extra support options.