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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #74 from previous page: October 24, 2011, 08:55:51 AM »
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #75 on: October 24, 2011, 12:07:05 PM »
Great news! Will most probably get me back to the Amiga scene as I've been wanting to try out OS4 but haven't really been willing/able to shell out with large amounts of cash for the hardware. :)
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #76 on: October 24, 2011, 01:15:13 PM »
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All right, at the risk of being the first troll in this thread... is anyone else concerned about the fact that this still keeps AmigaOS stuck on PPC processors?

Don't get me wrong, good news, glad to hear it, but as far as I know, PPC still has an expensive and possibly limited future.

I wish 'em well, and am glad they finally got the hint about affordable hardware, just wondering about the long term implications.


I know what you mean, I was hoping for a switch to ARM, but do they have the man power to do that kind of switch? I'm not even sure Amiga is a full time venture at Hyperion, they'd probably have other work to keep money coming in.

That said, a cute affordable Amiga laptop/netbook gets my vote. If it can run legacy applications at a decent rate.
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #77 on: October 24, 2011, 01:17:54 PM »
Holy crap! Didn't expect this. 12" is too small for me I think, but this could be the start of something good.
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #78 on: October 24, 2011, 01:19:46 PM »
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I hope this comes to fruition add I will probably buy one for myself, but I fear this is just another announcement meant to stop some people getting a MorphOS Powerbook.


Also makes good cover for the fact that "X" doesn't seem to work. No working SMP, no working Xena, no working Xorro.
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #79 on: October 24, 2011, 01:46:37 PM »
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I fear this is just another announcement meant to stop some people getting a MorphOS Powerbook.


if morphos powerbook get stopped by a 400mhz/256mb ram notebook, then maybe morphos powerbook was not meant to be?.. just a thought.
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #80 on: October 24, 2011, 01:54:26 PM »
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All right, at the risk of being the first troll in this thread... is anyone else concerned about the fact that this still keeps AmigaOS stuck on PPC processors?

Don't get me wrong, good news, glad to hear it, but as far as I know, PPC still has an expensive and possibly limited future.

I wish 'em well, and am glad they finally got the hint about affordable hardware, just wondering about the long term implications.


you can start worry about 'stuck on ppc' when amigaos5.1 is out... now lets get the drivers, a proper web browser finished and some hw most of us can afford. maybe we also get more programmers for amigaos4.x , that we desperately need.
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #81 on: October 24, 2011, 04:42:20 PM »
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You might also have seen it (or rather the "nettop" variant based on the same HW) resold as "Cherrypal"


i hope not, that SOC/cpu was so bugged... I remember reading all the problems some time back on powerdeveloper.
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #82 on: October 24, 2011, 05:04:11 PM »
I widely detest netbooks - I find them to be an underpowered scourge even running Linux, lol.  I hope this one is better.

I am intrigued at the thought of this, if it is priced right and performs adequately it will get one of the Amiga operating system variants into more peoples hands, and the OS4 market has been prohibitively expensive since day one.

End of the day people:  red, blue, green, pink, brown, teal, etc - whatever color "camp" you are part of, seeing any of these Amiga OS's in the hands of people unfamiliar with them at a good price point, we all win as Amigans.
 

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #83 on: October 24, 2011, 09:40:15 PM »
Netbooks are for feeble people who are too weak to carry a "real" laptop.  ;)

I don't see the attraction of an underpowered machine with a screen you need to squint at.  I'll stick to the AmigaOne X1000/500 until they bring out a proper laptop with an energy guzzling CPU that drains the battery in less than 2 hours, a minimum 17" display and a full keyboard (just like my PC laptop).
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #84 on: October 24, 2011, 09:40:51 PM »
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I widely detest netbooks - I find them to be an underpowered scourge even running Linux, lol.  I hope this one is better.


Glad I'm not the only one.
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #85 on: October 24, 2011, 10:14:43 PM »
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Netbooks are for feeble people who are too weak to carry a "real" laptop.  ;)

I don't see the attraction of an underpowered machine with a screen you need to squint at.  I'll stick to the AmigaOne X1000/500 until they bring out a proper laptop with an energy guzzling CPU that drains the battery in less than 2 hours, a minimum 17" display and a full keyboard (just like my PC laptop).
For me I'd like a machine somewhere in the middle. The first "netbooks" (the Eee 700 series, for example) were indeed underpowered as hell and too tiny to really use for a lot of us. On the other hand, a 17"+ mega-laptop is just too damn big and heavy for my tastes (even 15" is pushing it,) and I do want 4+ hours of battery life out of the thing, or I might as well just live with a desktop.

My ideal machine would be something with a 12" screen (4:3, dammit, none of this widescreen crap,) a real hard drive, 1.6-2GHz on a CPU that can make decent use of those clock cycles, and 4-8 hours of battery life; something that I can lounge on the couch or in bed with for as long as I please and have to worry about neither a collapsed lung from the weight or a strained eye from a tiny screen.
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #86 on: October 24, 2011, 10:31:35 PM »
I always find the "underpowered" statement curious...

It all depends what you want to do with it....  If it has enough power to do what you want, then it's not underpowered...  :-)

I have a tablet I use to watch videos, read books, and check some websites/e-mail...
It's 800Mhz with a wimpy 3D implementation.  Some games play badly or not at all...
But it's not underpowered, because I didn't intend to use it for those things..

Now, my gut feeling (which is terribly biased and not fair, but too bad :-), is that Amiga is 68k, and I haven't been interested in PPC...

But I have to admit, the netbook and possible price point is at least making me think about my definitions a bit...  ;-)

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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #87 on: October 24, 2011, 10:39:25 PM »
@ CommodoreJohn & Desiv:

Fair points.  It all boils down to how you want to use your laptop/netbook/notebook/etc.

For me, I use my laptop as a desktop replacement while I'm away on business so I want a nice, big display and lots of pretty graphics when I'm playing games.  

Plus I need lots of storage space for my porn.  :D
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #88 on: October 24, 2011, 10:51:07 PM »
Well, there's always that ;)
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Re: Hyperion announce 12" Netbook running AmigaOS - due end of Q1/2012
« Reply #89 on: October 25, 2011, 01:18:01 AM »
I like this. 2nd quarter means 4.0 for my 40.  I'll be looking forward to the actual release specs.