Why I want an A-Eon X5000

[SACC-guy]

Why I want a A-Eon AmigaOne X5000!
I have had an Amiga since Jan 1986. In fact I still have my A1000 with all kinds of add-ons.
I moved up to a A2000, because work wanted me to have a "pc" or in my case a BridgeBoard.
Thru the years I've owned each model, but the A4000 and the Newtek Toaster, then Flyer became the combo that was my "Amiga"!
Well, one day a power surge "killed my Amiga" and I spent a year getting it repaired and replaced. I couldn't find any NEW Amigas (of course) or some of the parts, so I settled for used. (sigh)
About this time the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club (SACC) wanted to sell it's demo model AmigOne-G3. I bought it to help the club. So I started late into Next Gen Amigas.The hardware had issues and I was fustrated, but I got it to work. But again used hardware.
Meanwhile, AmigaDave came to AmiWest and showed MorphOS running on a Mac. I tried again. But I had to buy a USED mac. Then I had to find a used video card that MorphOS used. Then the power supplied died. And again I had to repair and find used parts.
Then all my old hardware needed re-capping...
I gave up for a while...
But NOW, A-eon has want I want!!!
A NEW Amiga, New hardware. NEW!
The AmigaOne X5000.

[SACC-guy]

OK. Fine, it is slower (I don't care). It doesn't make much of a difference, since there is nothing to run on it. I got it, looked at it and looks great.

Who cares this X5000 will be 1000x faster then emulation:  "ZERO software x 1000 = ZERO".

There is millions of computers that can run AmigaOS4.1 at this point. Now, how on earth to convince anybody to invest in this OS?

@kreciu
Let me splain it to you...
Sometimes the hardware comes first, then the "killer app"
(in my case, I had a 4000 long before the toaster and flyer was released)
Apple hardware had been made and sold before great apps, for the apple II visicalc and for the mac desktop publishing.

Given these historical truths, can you at least admit....your way of thinking needs... re-thinking?

BTW, it's true for pc's too...lotus and dbase and browsers (hell, microsoft missed the internet)all came later then the hardware!!!

One possibility, sell enough machines... developers might be tempted to take a chance on the hardware?

My list...
A1000 (since Jan86) A2000/A2500, A3000D, A3000T, A4000D, A4000T, A1200, A500
A1-G3, A1-G4, Micro A1,

Mac-G4 MMD, Power Macbook-G4, Mac Mini G4

[SACC-guy]

@ SACC-guy

I DON'T WANT AN X5000

because.....

I Love my X1000 :biglaugh::knuddel::pint:

I missed the Eyetech boat.
I missed the Sam boat, none to buy anywhere.
I really MISSED the X1000...all gone (sad sigh)

I don't know why I keep missing those boats.

But I will NOT miss the X5000!

[SACC-guy]

You forgot to sign your essay. Also there's spelling and grammatical mistakes, D -

@agami
No worries mate!
I think I got my point across!

for yur pleasure...my sig

A1000 (since Jan86) w/Comspec 2meg and CLtd scsi sidecars/ Live 1000 /midi with Miracle Keyboard
A2500 A2630 4meg and DKB A2632 with 112megs,A2091,A2065
A3000D A3640,Toaster Cozzy,
A3000T Mercury PPS 040 w32megs
A4000D 060 with 128megs, Toaster, Flyer, DPS TBC4
A4000T, QuikPak w/Quikpak 060 card with 128megs edo ram
A1200, DKB Cobra with 128megs, DBK Ferret scsi
A500, ICD AdIDE and ICD AdRam 540

A1-G3, A1-G4, Micro A1(dead, trying to fix)
Mac-G4 MMD, Power Macbook-G4, Mac Mini G4

[SACC-guy]

Heh, by the time its available ram and graphics cards will have to be sourced either 2nd hand or as NOS, so the whole buying new as an advantage needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
AMD have already moved on from S.I, and ddr3-1333 is somewhat archaic.


Not that this will detract from the user experience. My 5 year old 4ghz quad core AROS box is still great fun, despite being 2nd hand and massively outdated. If the x5000 can reach even %25 of that systems performance then its almost at that bare minimum for modern computing type level.

@fishy_fiz
No worries!

I just order a complete and tested system from AmigaKit!!!

[SACC-guy]

Greetings,

This is my first post here. Recently for my 50th birthday I indulged myself in getting my hands on a loaded Classic Amiga 2000 after 25 years to get back to doing a bit of C coding as from what I can tell the core OS has not changed too much and figured since OS4 hardware has not been available its a good place to start.

 I have been professionally in development for over 30 years and am now an  executive overseeing a large international development team.  Programming for me now is a outside of work hobby and I look forward to bringing some software to the Amiga OS 4.X Platform.  I anxiously await to getting my hands on X5000 as I hope to be able to get LLVM up and running on OS4 possibly port Clang as I have fun little programming language that I can bring to environment.

Compared to all the modern OS systems I deal with day to day.  The Amiga is just plan fun!

So for my first post on Amiga.org I have registered my interest with AEON and I say bring on the X5000!

Doug

Welcome Doug,
I'm sure you will enjoy the Amiga-verse (classic and NG)
As you didn't show your location, I will just invite you to SACC, Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and AmiWest2016 in Sacramento,CA USA. (see sacc.org)

You can visit and explore the Amiverse including a Programmers Dev-com.

Again Welcome!

[SACC-guy]

@agami
So why did you mis-lead us in your post?

Maybe you should make your own thread?