OOOOOOO….what could THIS be

[dammy]

Is it going to be better quality than the PC I already have for an equivalent price?

Somehow, I strongly doubt it.

I will have to consult my Magic 8 Ball since I have no idea on what you are using or if it's home built vs factory built.   I know who he is having the work done in China, he is a very lucky man with many deep connections.  To give you an example of the quality Barry is expecting, he is a solid Apple guy.  Take that as you will.

[nicholas]

I will have to consult my Magic 8 Ball since I have no idea on what you are using or if it's home built vs factory built.   I know who he is having the work done in China, he is a very lucky man with many deep connections.  To give you an example of the quality Barry is expecting, he is a solid Apple guy.  Take that as you will.

Are you a member of his lodge yet Randy?

[Karlos]

I will have to consult my Magic 8 Ball since I have no idea on what you are using or if it's home built vs factory built.   I know who he is having the work done in China, he is a very lucky man with many deep connections.  To give you an example of the quality Barry is expecting, he is a solid Apple guy.  Take that as you will.

Well, it's a home build with some (at the time) carefully selected parts - was being a bit of a snob.

In reality, if the stuff is as well-built as some of apple's desktop kit then fair play. However, looking at the website, the products listed at the moment don't give me that impression.

[nicholas]

Anyone else notice the parallels between the CUSA fanboys and the old Bouma brigade?

[Wayne]

I can only suspect site is now owned by A Inc or a close supporter of them reading your drivel.

Then you sir, are an idiot.  

I have no horse in this race.  I stick around here simply because I've been here since day one.  Erm, scratch that.  BEFORE day zero, back when Amiga.org was just a dream and all we had was the single-line NASAU Beach BBS..  I *used* to be one of the aforementioned Amiga zealots, then I grew up and realized that there would never be anything new and moved on.  I'm NOT trying to suggest immaturity on the part of anyone who still loves the Amiga, I just don't get it any more.  Nothing (IMHO) wrong with that.

I'm a self-professed "Apple Fanboy" now for a lot of reasons.  The first and foremost being that they're hella good machines that I don't have to stress and dinker with to get to work.  

The current iMac on my desk is very much what Amiga SHOULD HAVE become, and even could have if only people had listened 11 years ago.

Real plug and play.  You plug something into the mac.  If it doesn't work, 99.9% chance it's broke.  a 27" backlit monitor, 3.06 ghz speed, and I mean REAL speed, as opposed to "hampered by Windows speed" and an excellent software base as well as community.

If anything, I'm just frustrated by the legions of missed opportunities to wash away the stink that is the "classic" since the Gateway days, and it frustrates me to see the blindly devoted "Amiga" worshipers happily trash anything that doesn't run classic (not to mention 20-year-old) (cr)apps.

Look.  I know that most of you think futzing with the Amigas is fun.  If I offend anyone with my tirades, I apologize, and yes, I may be an idiot to most of you, but at least you can't accuse me of not being honest with how I feel about it.

Do I think that Amiga-branded chinese knockoff Android tablets are the best idea ever?  Nope.  Unlike most people here though, I am however willing to sit back and watch AI try to run with it and see if they can actually do anything unique before I start trashing them for their efforts.

Wayne

[Iggy]

"If anything, I'm just frustrated by the legions of missed opportunities  to wash away the stink that is the "classic" since the Gateway days, and  it frustrates me to see the blindly devoted "Amiga" worshipers happily  trash anything that doesn't run classic (not to mention 20-year-old)  (cr)apps.

Look.  I know that most of you think futzing with the Amigas is fun.  If  I offend anyone with my tirades, I apologize, and yes, I may be an  idiot to most of you, but at least you can't accuse me of not being  honest with how I feel about it. "

Way to go Wayne.The missed opportunities ARE the most painful part of Amiga.
And even more painful is seeing something like the computer you're using and realizing that we should have done at least that well (or better).

[persia]

To be fair "made in china" can mean anything for absolute cr@p to top of the line.  They cover it all.  Foxconn (the makers of iPad) may be Taiwanese but all their factories are in China....

[Iggy]

To be fair "made in china" can mean anything for absolute cr@p to top of the line.  They cover it all.  Foxconn (the makers of iPad) may be Taiwanese but all their factories are in China....

And their workers are suicidal. Frankly, I feel that there's been a drop in quality since everyone (including the Taiwanese) switched to Chinese production.

[klx300r]

.....Do I think that Amiga-branded chinese knockoff Android tablets are the best idea ever?  Nope.  Unlike most people here though, I am however willing to sit back and watch AI try to run with it and see if they can actually do anything unique before I start trashing them for their efforts.

Wayne

based on their past ..cough cough..Amiga projects I strongly doubt anything 'unique' will come of this (at least on AI's end as CUSA at a minimum made a cool looking retro case).

Sadly AI is just trying (yet again) to sheyster a few bucks off some poor souls that fondly remember the Amiga name:(

[kedawa]

And their workers are suicidal. Frankly, I feel that there's been a drop in quality since everyone (including the Taiwanese) switched to Chinese production.

The suicide thing was a lot of hot air.  The rate of suicides among their employees does not exceed that of the general population.

[Lurch]

This is just another android tablet clone, $150 NZD, and an Amiga theme for it ;-)

[Kesa]

The current iMac on my desk is very much what Amiga SHOULD HAVE become, and even could have if only people had listened 11 years ago.

Real plug and play.  You plug something into the mac.  If it doesn't work, 99.9% chance it's broke.  a 27" backlit monitor, 3.06 ghz speed, and I mean REAL speed, as opposed to "hampered by Windows speed" and an excellent software base as well as community.

So you do realise that windows 7 is as fast if not faster than the snow leopard.

As for the "real plug and play" i have noticed no difference between Windows 7 and snow leopard. Can you provide examples?

But i do agree Apple do make great desktops and i really enjoy using them. The imacs have the best construction i can think of in a computer

[Lurch]

Windows 7 is a really good OS, fast, stable and can find 98% of hardware out there. Windows update actually works and installs drivers with no problems.

Only hardware that wont work is really old legacy stuff, but then if you are still trying to use 10 year old gear on a PC you're crazy (sounds strange coming from an Amiga user ;-)).

If you must have XP it has an XP mode (virtual machine basically) works 100%.

Vista was a dog, I beta tested that for a corp enviroment for awhile. So many issues, it was basically a Windows ME.

Windows XP is fine, running that at work in a military environment with no issues. Although hardware companies will slowly drop support for XP. Which is as it should be. The OS has reached it's EOL.

Android is a good OS, it's starting to really evolve. OSX is okay, but I found it limiting and it's no good in a corp world. Great for home use however, although the limiting factor there is gaming.

Ubuntu is also good, although some games I have wont run under it. Other than that it makes a good OS at home. Although no good for work at this point in time.

We need to run a stable, supported OS on base as you can imagine if it went wrong it could be a bag of giggles when a ship takes out a friendly ;-)

[Kesa]

If you must have XP it has an XP mode (virtual machine basically) works 100%.

Really? tell me where i want to try it!

I really like windows 7. It leave everything else in its wake

[whabang]

Multiple excellent posts

You, good Sir, made a perfect summary of what's wrong with the Amiga community today.

[jj]

Really? tell me where i want to try it!
 
I really like windows 7. It leave everything else in its wake

Just type in XP mode into the internet. Its basically a free copy of xp running under VM. Now even works if your CPu does not support hardware virtualisation.   I think you need at least home premium version and up of windows 7