What the F***!

[klx300r]

Right, so slapping a new bezel on some manufacturer's stock case, putting it in a pretty box, and skinning Linux with something that looks like Workbench makes it a completely different thing than an equivalent-spec PC assembled from components off NewEgg or TigerDirect.

"For my next trick, I'm going to turn this Honda into a Ferrari Testarossa using only a label printer and an airbrush!"

excellent analogy! in the early 90's there used to be a guy I know that drove a 'kit car' Fiero to make it look like a 3x8 Ferrari (alla Magnum PI)....sad eh

[klx300r]

You know, people... you're pretty funny.

Out there, in the REAL world, hundreds of millions of x86 PCs is being sold every year, both cheap and expensive, yet you're trying to convince me that it is wrong to sell those and that it is a failed concept.

nope it's not wrong to sell an off the shelf PC but it's sad to get the AI shysters to make a cent off each one sold with their sticker on it !

Instead, one should go in a adventure of a completely new platform and/or OS just for the sake of being completely different.

AmigaOS, AROS, and MOS are already here....and so are various Linux distro's

Good... good. Go ahead and try, put your money where your mouth is :lol:

you know real companies that care about the community already have ...oh wait..ya I just remembered that AI and CUSA don't give a rats ass about that...right Leo:angry:

[klx300r]

And yet your not even walking. You are barely crawling or being dragged by the big boys like Dell and Asus...

And contrary to your beliefs it was even harder to do in 1985 because there was more competition. Commodore had to fight Apple, Atari, IBM, HP etc etc, each one trying to impose their architecture over the other on a limited marketplace (the personal computer market was smaller at that time).

For someone in the know you should learn a bit more about the history of the personal computer before making such remark.

This is obvious to many of us but perhaps Leo (or whoever he is) is a bit too young to remember those times

[klx300r]

Your average user today browses internet, plays flash/Java games, soon will also run in-browser 3D games... watches youtube videos... none of that is possible on any amiga(like) system...

WoW..can't you do a wee bit of reading before you post ignorant comments like this

[klx300r]

.....CUSA are planning a tablet(maybe even a smartphone, although that may be too much from current perspective), but it will not be released that soon.

really a tablet??? so what sticker errr innovation will CUSA be bringing to the tablet market with their 30 million investment money

[klx300r]

Well to be fair Morphos can do flash in the browser pretty well. =]

don't bother it's blatantly obvious AI & CUSA don't care enough about the community to know what's going on now or what's just around the corner

[klx300r]

@ Wayne

I've been loving your comments you should post more often.. : ) The real problem with OS4 project is like you said, no possibility of new software.. as it is it took a Morphos Developer (Fab) to help out with the os4 port of OWB after a main OS4 developer (joerg) abandoned it!

well there's been some great new software and ports coming out lately...Hollywood, Blender and Timberwolf to name a few.  As for Fab helping out kas1e on the OWB port..yes that's great as a temporary small gap but I'm sure most of us are awaiting the final release of Timberwolf with much more excitement

[klx300r]

Why?  Firefox is a bloated piece of crap.

hey that's fine...you probably like Apple products too I bet...fine for you & to each his own etc.

FF has been my main browser on my notebook since it came out....the Apha release for AmigaOS4.1u2 is lightning fast..actually faster than my PC so can't wait till the final release is here !

[klx300r]

I've used Firefox since it was called Phoenix.
It's a bloated piece of crap.

ok then perhaps you can team up with AI & CUSA to make a better web browser for your Workbench 5 iranian version eh...I'm sure many of us here will be waiting:razz:

[klx300r]

.... Perhaps you're campaigning to be their marketing director?

Plaz

why not...hey Leo..you got some spare room in that garage AI is working out of:lol:

[klx300r]

..Thats still £6 million a year, so what did they spend it on in the first year, it cant be public relation.  :roflmao:. Did they support any Amiga show, event, developer, or any one in the community for its first year? (and don't say well they dont have a product to show, and they only just started business and only just got the rights etc etc, Aeon had only just started only just got something to show and yet still supported every major amiga event and sponsored competition and help developers.) will CommodoreUSA ever do anything like this, it would go a long way to convincing Amiga users and they would only have to spend 1% of there advertising budget, if even that. Just £50 donation towards any part of the amiga community I would be thankful from CommodoreUSA. (and again, this is not blackmail, trying to force the company to invest in an area of the market it has no interest in, but number 1. it would go along way to convincing people they do want to help the amiga community, 2. many other company in amiga world donate, even ageist their business, look at cloanto for example giving donation to make a legal free kickstart when its main business is selling these roms legally. Aeon/trever has donated and bought a lot from morphos and aros camps and he meant to be supporting OS4. 3. I think it would be seen as a good gesture from them. )

+1 but this makes logical sense..something CUSA and AI apparently have none of.