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Title: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: bbond007 on October 24, 2011, 08:50:01 PM

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/23/2312219/hyperion-promises-an-amigaos-netbook

interesting...

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: Haranguer on October 25, 2011, 07:54:53 PM

Interesting, in a very negative kind of way.  The people on SlashDot just don't get it.  I tried to explain to them, but I know I was wasting my time ;-)

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: koaftder on October 25, 2011, 07:59:04 PM

Quote from: Haranguer;665141

Interesting, in a very negative kind of way.  The people on SlashDot just don't get it.  I tried to explain to them, but I know I was wasting my time ;-)

They seem to get it just fine. Underpowered, overpriced, feature lacking, buggy and an OS that isn't modern.

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: Duce on October 25, 2011, 08:01:41 PM

Quote from: Haranguer;665141

Interesting, in a very negative kind of way.  The people on SlashDot just don't get it.  I tried to explain to them, but I know I was wasting my time ;-)

Heh, to be fair Slashdot has fallen a lot from its' days as a very valuable resource for techies, so I am not surprised no one "gets" it.  I find Reddit far more useful than Slashdot lately, and it's just essentially a general news site.  Digg has gone down the crapper as well.

Sadly most of these social media type sites lately are terrible, unless it's Apple related most people pay it no mind :/

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: Delta on October 25, 2011, 08:32:13 PM

That's why I stopped reading slashdot a while ago, most of them just say "Amiga is dead, buy a PC" whatever the Amiga news that was posted...

It used to be news for nerds but now its news for snobbish nerds :)

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: bbond007 on October 25, 2011, 09:02:45 PM

Quote from: Delta;665149

That's why I stopped reading slashdot a while ago, most of them just say "Amiga is dead, buy a PC" whatever the Amiga news that was posted...

It used to be news for nerds but now its news for snobbish nerds :)

also mentioned on OSnews:

http://www.osnews.com/comments/25251

That osnews is probably more friendly to AmigaOS.

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: Nostalgiac on October 25, 2011, 09:09:56 PM

Quote from: koaftder;665145

They seem to get it just fine. Underpowered, overpriced, feature lacking, buggy and an OS that isn't modern.

+1 (or +100000...)

x1000 is a joke in 2011

Tom UK

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: vidarh on October 25, 2011, 10:16:20 PM

Quote from: koaftder;665145

They seem to get it just fine. Underpowered, overpriced, feature lacking, buggy and an OS that isn't modern.

So in other words, they, and you, don't get it.

Apart from a few holdouts, most people here have PC's or Macs either as our primary machines or as the "workhorse", and so while it'd be fantastic to have an Amiga that is competitive again, this is a hobby - normal considerations does not apply.

Then again, whining about it is a hobby to a lot of people here too, I guess.

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: jorkany on October 25, 2011, 10:40:01 PM

Quote from: vidarh;665172

So in other words, they, and you, don't get it.

Apart from a few holdouts, most people here have PC's or Macs either as our primary machines or as the "workhorse", and so while it'd be fantastic to have an Amiga that is competitive again, this is a hobby - normal considerations does not apply.

So go get an Amiga, but the X1000 has absolutely nothing to do with that.

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: XDelusion on October 25, 2011, 11:54:35 PM

Amusing article. :)

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: TheGoose on October 26, 2011, 12:06:20 AM

Hyperbaron.

Title: Re: Slashdot mentions Amiga Netbook
Post by: persia on October 26, 2011, 12:28:21 AM

Yeah, what's not to love?

Quote from: koaftder;665145

They seem to get it just fine. Underpowered, overpriced, feature lacking, buggy and an OS that isn't modern.