my AO G4XE will arrive beginning April 2003 :-)

[mbilla]

Hi

Will send money today, AO G4 XE will arrive end March beginning April.

Just got confirmation from KDH-Shop Germany.

;-)

[Warface]

Congratulations :-) Hope delivery deadlines will meet, and wishing many fun with your new machine :-)

Hope all the XEs will be delivered that fast :-)

[Helgis75]

I'm quite sure my A1G4XE also will arrive early April, as i live in Norway :-)

Shouldn't be too long..:-)

[strass]

As soon as AmigaOS 4.00 PPC will be avaiable I will buy my AmigaONE G4-XE. I hope at that time the G4 will be at more then 800mhz and I hope that delivery time will be shorter tan now !!!

[Ami603]

I hope mine arrives soon also
:-D:-D:-D:-D

[olegil]

@Helgis75:

Where in Norway, and are you going to AmiGBG? I'm still considering, but I hate driving alone :-)  (but I prefer it to travelling by bus/boat alone, for some reason)

[JurassicCamper]

mbilla wrote:
Hi

Will send money today, AO G4 XE will arrive end March beginning April.

Just got confirmation from KDH-Shop Germany.

;-)

Optimist  :-P  :-P  :-D

[Kronos]

JurassicCamper wrote:


Optimist  :-P  :-P  :-D

/me is not so sure .....

What does "confirmation" mean ?
Back than I told KDH to drop me an email when the got a board
"with my name on it", so that I could send the money.

But that wouldn't take ~2 weeks .... (under 1 in my case).

That what did they say/write ?
"We got the boards here, and are just serching for some post-stamps"
"Alan said they will come, and in Alan we trust"
"We just put another bogus release-date on our page and have
decided that it is time to cash in"

(o.k. the cashing-in part doesn't really sound like KDH)

[Lando]

I don't understand why people are paying money now for boards that, currently, will only run Linux.

Surely, if you want to run Linux this badly, you can get an x86 board with everything fully integrated for £50 instead of paying ten times that for the PPC board.  

And suppose OS4 isn't released (I'm not suggesting it wont be), what will you do with your board then ?  Beg Genesi to port MorphOS?

Surely if you want to run AmigaOS 4 you should wait until it is finished, tested, and released before taking such a big risk?

Still, maybe £500 is not a lot of money to some people, I don't know...

[xeron]

@Lando

I've ordered an AmigaONE XE G4 800, even though I hate linux. Why? for these reasons:

1) The specification list for OS4 is much closer to what I want for an updated AmigaOS than MorphOS's feature list.

2) Hyperion do have a track record of releasing products.

3) Whether or not it was Mr. Bucks fault, I do not trust a company run by the people who ran Viscorp after reading what Mr. Sassenrath and some other disgruntled employees had to say about it. This is not a slight against bPlan, or the MorphOS team who I am sure are doing a good job.

4) I want a product as the AmigaOS 4 featurelist describes, and I am prepared to take a financial risk to let the people involved know I am serious about wanting such a product.

5) All my dealings with Eyetech have been great. Eyetech have always come across as people prepared to go the extra mile to make sure their customers are happy.

6) I used to talk on BorgNet (a FidoNet style network) with Will Redhouse (Alans son

Now, £800 (as my AmigaONE system is going to cost me once its all added up), is a HELL of a lot of money for me, but I want the product described by the AmigaOS featurelist so badly i'm prepared to take that risk and hope that the product eventually arrives as described.

You may not understand taking such a risk, but I guess I like to live on the edge :-D

[Agafaster]

...Not to mention that 800 quid is [color=996600]CHEAP[/color]
for a big box Amiga.... how much was the 030/25 A4000 when it came out ? and the comparable 3/486DX 25 PeeCee ?

/edit:

Just spoken to Eyetech (ordered a TOTAL Amiga issue !) they are about to update their Website as soon as they get time - "please bear with us !"

"Developer machines have gone out., awaiting delivery of User boards from far east."

[carls]

£800... I don't think that's CHEAP.
The A1 architecture isn't "big box"-architecture, it's consumer-level architecture!

Yes, when the A3000 came out it beat the sh*t out of PCs in the same price range but this doesn't go for the A1.

My new PC cost me £615 including a 17" monitor, ATX case, Athlon 1.8GHz GeForce 4 MX etc. and this is hardware that runs in circles around the A1 (according to benchmarks posted here at a.org).

I can understand that the manufacturing costs for the A1 is higher than your average PC MoBo but I feel that if the Amiga is going to have chance the prices need to be more competitive.

Of course I'm excited about the new Amiga and the new OS and I can understand people who put their money in it. However: Personally I wouldn't buy it until I see a review of an A1 with OS4 -- and a price drop.

[Atheist]

Yes, it is expensive, but from memory, I spent

Can  UKP
2000 = 857 1989  A2000 1 meg chip, 1 floppy, + 6% tax
500 = 214 1989 1084 monitor (not the 1084S, that was $50 more) +6% tax
300=128 1990 GVP Series II impact SCSI ram card, no tax
560 = 240 1990 8 * 1 meg SIMMs 80 ns, no tax
905 = 388 1990 Fujitsu 180 Meg SCSI HD, incl. tax

Totals
4440 Can = 1902 UKP

Amiga was ALWAYS too expensive. They could have AT LEAST put SIMM sockets on the A500, A600, A2000, and A1200 motherboards, but THEY WERE CROOKS!!!! (Reference is to Commodore BM)

I would still like to get the Megachip 2000 (at least $150) and an accelerator ($1200 Can + ram). Cripes!
And that, a 60Mhz 060 and a 604 (@240MHz?)!!!!

Then, I'm still using AOS 1.3.3!!! I'd like to get the 3.0 and a rom switcher, and AOS 3.5 or 3.9.

Then, I still don't get to see the beauty of AGA. Maybe, one day I'll find one still for sale at Soft(ware)Hut.

So, if I end up spending a bit much for an AmigaOne, I still spent more before. I'm shooting for the 1.3 GHz. I've put a partial pre-payment on an A1XE 800, so that they at least hold on to One for me. My plan is to put in 2 Gigs, and a RAID card (I want the fastest boot time possible :-D). I'm even going to try it, with booting off of a Compact Flash card, that ought to SHOCK the guy putting it together for me :-D :-D :-D Hahahaha!!

I wish they would just go ahead and make the OCS/ECS/AGA emulator. Pick the Back 2 the Roots poll if you are interested.

AmigaOne! "Whatever, whenever wherever", I just prefer, "Everything"!!!!!  :-D

[mbilla]

What does "confirmation" mean ?

Well as I don't life in Germany I have to make a money transfer to Germany. KDH wrote me the boards will ship in the first week of April.
So if I do transfer the money now it will arrive in time. :-)

and yes 800 Euros are a lot of money, for 120 Euros I could also get a very fast micro ATX board with MPEG encoder and decoder, soundchips and all the other connections to run any LINUX but I already have a lot of computers and my Amiga Collection wants a faster Amiga :-)

Why wait for Pegagos? I have seen their computers but they're not avaible until 6 months. So I hope Amiga OS 4 will be finished by than. But I don't think I will do much with Amiga OS because I just use my Amigas for  PageStream and Internetsurfing and one Amiga as router for all the rest of the computers I own.  All the rest I do under Linux or Mac and from my job on PCs.

Bye Manou

[Darth_X]

Honestly, it should NOT be sold as an AmigaONE until at least it is shipping *with* AmigaOS4.

*emperors new clothes*

I still don't see what makes a generic PPC motherboard without an operating system an Amiga. Its only an Amiga in trademark name.

Hence at this point an Amiga could be a $200 x86 PC running linux for all we care.