Obviously we can only know what aeon lets us know,and i have read their site.thats how i came to the conclusion this is nothing special.
You're right as long as you compare the A1 X1k to the latest developments on e.g. the WIntel side.
But we are talking about our Amiga
hobby here.
And as soon as you compare the A1 X1k to all other existing Amiga incarnations it is special and thrilling - at least for me and some others.
the obscure xorro bus is useless unless there are drivers to drive some unknown hardware plugged in...which doesn't exhist.
Having already read the last sentence of this posting I now could reply with some doubts regarding you having ever used an Amiga, but that's not what I'm aiming at.
When I had my first Amiga back in 1988/89, it was common that users had new ideas of what could be done with this machine and REALISED them. They did not wait for others to do it for them. I see this situation in the best Amiga tradition. So do not moan about the uselessness of the Xorro bus - come up with ideas what it could be used for and how!
You can call it your new blender if you like.it doesn't make it amiga.
Do you really want the discussion of "What is an Amiga?" here?
But im sure you'll get yer boing stickers and such out to plaster all over the generic pc tower its in.
I don't mind "generic PC towers" as long as they meet my need for expandability.
And - btw - the case of my towered A4kD-PPC just has one sticker on it: "Powered by Amiga".
the A1000 was something that had not been seen or thought of,it was custom built from scratch.
I dare to disagree here.
It was NOT custom built from the scratch - just think of all the capacitors and resistors inside - and also the MC68000 cpu - none of them was specifically designed for use in Amigas.
the 3 main custom chips were built from scratch. The original amiga 1000 had some custom chips you may of heard of,denise,agnus,paula etc..
..., which are outdated today. That's why I replaced them with a pci graphics card (Voodoo4) and a pci sound card (Terratec 512i digital) in my A4kPPC.
ever heard of these?.
Not just that - I also used them long enough to get my eyes spoiled by them (Agnus & Denise & CBM 1081).
so no its not valid.
Of course you are free to have your own opinion - but it does not change the fact that I see it this way.
the x1000 is off the shelf parts.
The A1k also was mainly built from "off the shelf parts" from my POV.
it bring nothing new to the field currently other than a dual core processor and some xmos stuff tacked on.
Dual core cpu's, 64 bit and "some xmos stuff" actually
IS new to the Amiga field.
so that leaves me wondering if you've ever touched a real amiga let alone know what it is. lol
mech
I think I already replied to this quite at the beginning of this posting.
