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Title: Amiga killer?
Post by: weirdami on November 14, 2010, 09:33:42 PM

:^)

Jolibook (http://www.slashgear.com/jolicloud-jolibook-official-press-photos-now-available-2-sizes-13113940/)

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: tone007 on November 14, 2010, 09:35:18 PM

Quote from: weirdami

Amiga killer?

No, Jolicloud is actually quite lame.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: commodorejohn on November 14, 2010, 09:52:50 PM

I have nothing against Atom-based netbooks (my Eee is my go-to computer for daily tasks and time-killing, when I'm not farting around with my older machines or consoles,) but what? That's nothing like what people are drawn to the Amiga for. I suppose if you're an AROS user that might be a nice choice for mobile use, since it's got to be built out of components with open-source driver support, but I fail to see how that would be any kind of threat to the existing Amiga userbase, or how you even could kill a currently non-commercial product.

P.S. "cloud" is rapidly joining terms like "multimedia" in the list of buzzwords used solely by people who have no idea what that would actually mean or imply.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: tone007 on November 14, 2010, 09:55:31 PM

I agree, Atom-based netbooks are great little machines, but having used Jolicloud, I can safely say you're better off with plain old Ubuntu. (Or Windows, for that matter!)

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: persia on November 14, 2010, 11:24:59 PM

You can't kill something that's already dead...

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: Franko on November 14, 2010, 11:44:28 PM

What is that thing, looks like a School lunchbox for fat kids that have been forced to go on a diet... :lol:

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: Amiduffer on November 15, 2010, 12:37:23 AM

The official Amiga killer was Commodore.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: tone007 on November 15, 2010, 12:42:56 AM

If you think that's a silly little machine, take a look at this one:

(http://www.theinquirer.net/img/118/Fujitsu-U810.jpg)

5.6" screen as opposed to the netbook "standard" of 10", and a reduced keyboard size to match.

I hadn't touched mine in months due to a misplaced power adapter (and various other notebooks and netbooks to take its place,), but I just got it going again yesterday and remembered just how unusable it was.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: the_leander on November 15, 2010, 01:15:04 AM

Quote from: tone007;591752

No, Jolicloud is actually quite lame.

KNR ftw.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: the_leander on November 15, 2010, 01:34:18 AM

KNR would probably work quite nicely on that netbook, with it's dualcore atom.

I'd sooner have a Eee 1215 though.

Title: Re: Amiga killer?
Post by: Franko on November 15, 2010, 02:00:42 AM

@ tone007

Kinda looks like an old ZX81 that someone's fixed one of those in car DVD players to... :)