Amiga One XE Status Update

[amigamad]

@wayne

even the pentium 4 struggles to get near an amd athlon 3000+ xp chip.

maybe if they license amds stupid speed rating they could call it something that makes it sound good like the amigaone g4 xe 1600+. in england you cant even get the 2800+ so the 3000+ and 3200+ are going to be non existent in our country there will be more chance off getting my a1,unless you greedy americans can let us have some .

[amigamad]

i got it wrong amd athlon 3000+xp is available in england and it cost a masive £499.00  so i wont be getting one not good for a chip that runs at less than 2.2 gig about as expensive a p4 at 3gig . i know what you mean a1 is very low spec and  speed for todays computing they should have used standard  x86 amd motherbords from a company like asus then the os could just been writen for that and no 2 speed agp we could have 8x and all the latest stuff.I have not got that much faith in amiga they have taken ages to get something ready and what has happend to the amiga de it does not seem to get much attention these days and the longer they take the more morph os users there will be and more people losing intrest in the amiga. The amiga will never be what it once was .I remember at school it was the only machine to have you were a somebody if you had one, now people just  laugh at you or think your weird or wonder why you would still use them.


out of date amigaone g4 xe on the way .
and seconhand amiga 1000 bought from ebay auction on the way bought as collectors item not for using cost 113 pound and is boxed not that it would do much wit only 512k of memory.

[amigamad]

I doubt twin g4,s will beat an althlon xp chip and the a1 price is 3 times to high already i could buy the new athlon xp 3000+ and an asus motherboard for around the 600 pound the 800mhz  g4 amigaone is costing me lets face it they even want to charge for a crapy 5 volt fan thats stuck to cpu with tape how tacky is that  does not even have something to bolt to .

[amigamad]

@Wayne

good point via make boards with their own cpu,s and some of these dont need fans and they are very small one of the via sites i was on had lots of pictures in a gallery to show what you could do with these boards one was in a small toaster, they have the embeded market amiga have no chance these boards are also quite cheap all in one solutions.