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Title: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: barryum on December 03, 2002, 02:35:16 AM
(02-Dec-2002) Amiga announces the creation of a partnership with Extreme Computing to provide customers with an outlet to purchase Amiga licensed clothing and merchandise. Read the full release HERE (http://www.amiga.com/corporate/120202-extreme.shtml).

Includes a full line of complete A1 systems minus the monitors.  See them HERE (http://mall.amiga.com/amigamall/index.php?type=hardware).

Scroll to the bottom for the nicer cases.

Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: pteppic on December 03, 2002, 02:38:54 AM
--cross post from forum

Just looked through the AmigaMall for the first time in months. They have a nice aluminum case and pretty decent looking configurations for the A1. Very tempted to buy directly from Amiga Inc. instead of building my own system.

Do you think this clothes deal includes producing the Club Amiga tshits????

pt
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Tomas on December 03, 2002, 02:51:59 AM
*drool* at the black towers!
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Elektro on December 03, 2002, 02:55:15 AM
And you can also buy AmigaWriter...

This must be satire surely?
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: strobe on December 03, 2002, 02:57:29 AM
Coupons in 3...2...1...
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: blobrana on December 03, 2002, 03:01:13 AM
The black towers do look nice, a bit too dificult to see clearly though...

And  the spec seem reasonable too!.
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: R2D2 on December 03, 2002, 03:13:52 AM
Mmmmm.. Black.. I want one..  :-)
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: The_Editor on December 03, 2002, 05:58:10 AM
Re.. The black towers ..

Now THATS more like it.  Love the illuminated Boing !!
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Dagon on December 03, 2002, 06:25:29 AM
How much will they cost theSpecial BoingBall Custom Cases (the black ones)? It would be really cool to sell them separately because my new Amiga G4 configuration will be very different from the ones they have on their site.

Guess I`ll have to paint my CDRW in black if I get one! :-D
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Dagon on December 03, 2002, 06:25:50 AM
Argh! double post :-D

Anywayz. I think I saw some other cases with a boing ball. Does anyone remember any URL?
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: JurassicCamper on December 03, 2002, 08:58:05 AM
@ Dagon

I was in maplin (uk electrical store) this weekend
They sell replacement fronts for CD Drives. Many different shapes and sizes all in black.

you might get one online www.maplin.co.uk

Prices are in £'s however  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Housey on December 03, 2002, 09:35:57 AM
Now we're cooking !

Yeah the black are nice but I kinda like the Aluminum ones too.....

Be interesting to see what happens in the coming weeks and after the new yr   :-)
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Skyraker on December 03, 2002, 10:41:02 AM
Aren't they rather expensive?

1 gig of memory? for an amiga? I thought we had a nice streamlined OS, what the hell are we going to do with all that?

Being stupid, it's Skyraker
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: fjudde on December 03, 2002, 10:57:04 AM
@Skyraker

Well I guess your not only going to run the OS are you?:-P  Hopefully in the near future we will have some applications to run, like video edit apps, image edit apps etc.  Applikations like that need memory.
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: SlimJim on December 03, 2002, 11:09:10 AM
Interesting to see the logo of AmigaONE at the bottom of
 
http://mall.amiga.com/amigamall/index.php?type=apparel
 
Looks kinda good I think. Is this the new official AmigaONE
logo or just one of many used to represent the system (the
old one - the "boingball-with-a-blue-sparkling-core" is still
to be seen)?
 
Good to have some nice, friendly stuff to discuss for a
change! The AmgiaMall site looks good. Clean and simple
and not too much unnecessary drivel. The Exteme cases
are very impressive too. That black case is very nice.
Doubt I would afford it though - it doesn't seem to be
available separately, or am I wrong? I'm not THAT much
of a 'super user' that I need 1GB of RAM... :-)
.
SlimJim
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: whabang on December 03, 2002, 11:28:08 AM
WTF???
The HW section just disappeared!!! :-o
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: SlimJim on December 03, 2002, 11:32:08 AM
Logging on to Amiga mall from the portal, you get:
 
"Server busy; Please try again later."
 
Now that's either a massive, unexpected interest :-o or
some error with the server I guess. :-/
,
SlimJim
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Herewegoagain on December 03, 2002, 12:03:52 PM
Try this link (the one above does not work):

http://www.amiga.com/amigamall/index.php?type=hardware (http://www.amiga.com/amigamall/index.php?type=hardware)
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Nick on December 03, 2002, 12:28:42 PM
Oh..............Oh my god! I want! I really do want that system.

Hmmm I wish that tower was bigger. Its got the same amount of bays as my current Power Tower. I`ve run out in this one. Its way too easy to fill up.

Oh well. There are other more extreme sized cases out there. :-)
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Eric_Z on December 03, 2002, 01:08:34 PM
Teaken from the http://www.extremeamiga.com/
News section.

Extreme Has Posted general Pricing for Amiga One Systems. Due to very rigid technical support issues, we are only selling complete systems, not motherboards alone. There are very specific RAM configuration issues, graphic card issues, etc., that may pose problems for users who try to configure their own systems. We also feel that any computer with the Amiga name should be sold as a complete unit as it always has been in the past, (and also to to preclude any of the above mentioned problems from happening.)

We can provide you with a barebones system, which includes Motherboard, case & PS, RAM, and optical drive. (ALL fully compatible and tested).
Barebones G3-SE: $799
Barebones G4-XE: $999

I'm guessing that you can freely chose RAM and caseing, so those prices are propably just guidemarks. But this is as stated above this is just pure guesswork. :-?
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: AmiGod on December 03, 2002, 03:16:14 PM
Skyraker,

Quote
1 gig of memory? for an amiga? I thought we had a nice streamlined OS, what the hell are we going to do with all that?


Looks like we'll be building HUGE RAD drives.  Say, big enough to burn a CD from. :-)

AmiGod
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: AmiGod on December 03, 2002, 03:26:19 PM
Nick,

Quote
Hmmm I wish that tower was bigger


Do like I did with my A2k.  I ran out of space in the desktop portion, so I placed all my hard drives and CD-ROM drives into a separate mega-tower, and ran an external SCSI cable from the Blizzard 060 to the tower.  Works like a charm.  Well, worked is more like it.  I gutted the system and put most of the stuff into my A4kT a few years ago.

AmiGod
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: Nick on December 03, 2002, 09:25:48 PM
@AmiGod

I have thought about a multi-tower system in the past. It would be nice to have that. Two cool
towers one cool computer. Hmm one at either side of my monitor with my Power Tower nearby. Hmm is
that overkill? NAHH!
Title: Re: Amiga partners with Extreme Computing
Post by: AmiNTT on December 04, 2002, 01:15:06 AM
I guess its a good thing with the exception of it appears that they are screwing the other dealers - having an Amiga.com address makes it appear that the other dealers out there don't matter.  In fact, I'm sure there used to be a list of Amiga dealers on the corporate site, but it appears to be gone.

I hope this doesn't greatly annoy or push out of business any of the remaining dealers.

Buy from your local dealer!

I know I certainly will.