Ordered my AmigaOne X5000 from Amiga On The Lake in USA

[amigasociety]

Excited.... took the plunge and ordered my AmigaOne X5000 from Amiga On The Lake in USA.  First time ordering from them.  So far Aaron seems nice a nice guy and glad he opened an Amiga Shop in USA.  We needed one for sure.

Will let you know how my purchase all pans out.  I look forward to buying more goods from him after I get any Christmas monies.  :lol:

TJ Ferreira

[SACC-guy]

Congrats, it's a great machine.
I'm having a great time with mine!

Excited.... took the plunge and ordered my AmigaOne X5000 from Amiga On The Lake in USA.  First time ordering from them.  So far Aaron seems nice a nice guy and glad he opened an Amiga Shop in USA.  We needed one for sure.

Will let you know how my purchase all pans out.  I look forward to buying more goods from him after I get any Christmas monies.  :lol:

TJ Ferreira

[iCreate]

Any time frame on delivery? And did you register with A-EON?

[eliyahu]

@AmigaSociety

TJ!!! congrats! i really hope you like the system, and i'll be interested to see how you think it compares with the X1000 you used to have. i love mine, but then again, i never had the X1K. aaron rocks, and i'm thrilled we have him state-side.

-- eliyahu

[amigasociety]

Any time frame on delivery? And did you register with A-EON?

Hoping before end of 2016.  ;-)

I don't think one can register until I get the machine and know serial # for software, etc... ;-)

TJ

[amigasociety]

@AmigaSociety

TJ!!! congrats! i really hope you like the system, and i'll be interested to see how you think it compares with the X1000 you used to have. i love mine, but then again, i never had the X1K. aaron rocks, and i'm thrilled we have him state-side.

-- eliyahu

Been painful being without amiga os system for 1.5 + years.  Will be nice to be back.

TJ

[klx300r]

@ amigasociety

way to go TJ:hammer::banana: ya it's great for you guys to have a US dealer again for sure.  Be great if we can have one on the north side of the rock too as the dollar exchange/duties are a killer

[Iggy]

Cool. He deserves support. Its nice to have an Amiga vendor in the country that invented the platform again.

[iCreate]

Hoping before end of 2016.  ;-)

I don't think one can register until I get the machine and know serial # for software, etc... ;-)

TJ

OK. I meant the registration for notification from AEON a few months ago. Those that registered would get a followup email from the reseller when its available, so since I haven't heard from any reseller I figured it's still in preorder.

[klx300r]

@ iCreate

:hammer:congrats gonna be nice to see an Amiga in your sig once the X5000 arrives to offset all those Apple products there right now:razz:

[iCreate]

@ iCreate

:hammer:congrats gonna be nice to see an Amiga in your sig once the X5000 arrives to offset all those Apple products there right now:razz:

For the record, I have about twice as many classic systems than I do Macs.

[BozzerBigD]

@Iggy

I like to think of the Amiga as being adopted by Europe. The Amiga was so unloved by both the Commodore parent company (not Commodore UK which knew what a gem they had) and the U.S.A. in general due to woeful marketing (and Yanks not being as able to spot a great product without being 'SOLD & marketed' it ;-)). It is such a shame and quite frankly if Newtek and the Video Toaster hadn't come along then virtually no one in the U.S. would have heard of or remembered the Amiga.

[David Wright]

@Iggy

I like to think of the Amiga as being adopted by Europe. The Amiga was so unloved by both the Commodore parent company (not Commodore UK which knew what a gem they had) and the U.S.A. in general due to woeful marketing (and Yanks not being as able to spot a great product without being 'SOLD & marketed' it ;-)). It is such a shame and quite frankly if Newtek and the Video Toaster hadn't come along then virtually no one in the U.S. would have heard of or remembered the Amiga.

Maybe if it wasn't sold and marketed as a home game machine for the kids it would have done better. I hung on as long as possible with graphic and productivity but it was pointless by the early nineties.

[klx300r]

For the record, I have about twice as many classic systems than I do Macs.

:pint:

[Iggy]

Maybe if it wasn't sold and marketed as a home game machine for the kids it would have done better. I hung on as long as possible with graphic and productivity but it was pointless by the early nineties.

Frankly, my company was selling its own multi-user 68K systems at the time, and after a visit from some IBM engineers (and the receipt of a pre-release copy of Window 3.0) I was able to accurately predict what would happen to the computer market.
Hey, having a better idea NEVER guarentees you a win in a commodity driven market.
And Commodore was fairly clueless about how to advance the Amiga.
Paula should have been scrapped in favor of a plug in audio card.
Same with AGA graphics. It was way to slow and unsuited for 3D graphics.

OUR machines always used plug in graphics cards (and a better OS, but that is besides the point).

Development of the 68000 series stopped as the Mac moved to PPC.
Commodore was foolish enough to be looking at PA-RISC.
And their best engineer, Dave Haynie was never that good anyway.
Certainly he was no Jay Miner, and Zorro III's dma issue clearly point to that.

Our dreams died, and those of second rate carnival barkers like Steve Jobs prospered.