Mac On Linux AmigaOne screenshots

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I posted these over at ann , not much reaction at all :/ , looks cool neways , 500mhz is weird but the bogomips look good

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@KennyR

Why on Earth would you be either surprised, or disappointed?  Without serious applications, you could put AmigaOS on *any and every* hardware device in the world and it will still be a toy OS.  

I personally say more power to them.  If they are willing to buy Alan's 600 Megahertz AmigaOne (MAI Board) and call it a "cheap alternative for Linux" then that's apparently the kind of idiot Amiga Inc wants in this community.  Welcome aboard.

Let me ask all you little hardware tweekers something, and I want an honest answer.  When was the last year you guys remember paying $1.00+ per Megahertz for a motherboard?  1991?  1992?  Excuses aside, I've still yet to hear a reasonable reason for the A1 to cost $650 + the cost of OS.  

Oh wait..  I'm sorry, I forgot, if you lend them $50.00 now, they'll throw in the OS for only $20...  Gee, that's a good deal.  Am I the only one that keeps picturing the hamburger guy from the old Popeye cartoons here?

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...and I didn't even get one mod point for it.

On the other hand, some $#!@$@# moderator decided to mod my post with the current counter on the amiga-anywhere site as -1 Troll. Slashdot, gotta love it.

[System]

And using amigaOs on UAE is not allowed by the EULA and alot of people do that.

It must be really burning you up kronos that the amiga one is in real peoples hands that pda dev system is still over at thendic and being produced by PPC stealers inc.

I wonder why you get so involved and bitch so much , you don't even own a ppc card.

[System]

I didn't pirate XP, and you can't even begin to seriously compare Windows XP to the slightly updated 1991 AmigaOS (I'll spot you until 3.1).  Let me see if I can remember;

Gigabyte GA7-DXR RAID motherboard = $110
Athlon 1.4 GIGAHERTZ / 266 bus cpu = $75
Windows XP Pro = $92.00

So, $277 for the whole shooting match.  Oh, wait, $25 for shipping, or a whole  $302.00..  Add in $100 for 512 Megabytes of Memory, $35 for a case, and about $130 for a 64 MB DDR Geforce 2 Pro video card (last year's price), about $65 for a 40 Gigabyte hard drive and it's what....

$612 for a complete system at least twice as fast as the AmigaOne with 1000x the available software, instant networking, and all the basic tools anyone needs to be operational.  

Given that you are talking "$600" for a board and CPU (I'll even grant you the $50), you are still out $300+ for the other stuff.

Compare this to a 600Mhz G3 iMac ("old-style") and it becomes a little more reasonable, but not much, since I can pick up one matching pretty much my specs for about $850 and still get better software availability.

"This" is not about $50 to support the Amiga or Amiga Inc.  This is not about hardware or software loyalty.  This is about common sense versus fanaticism.  Any attempts to say otherwise are just too humorous for words.

[System]

Seriously Wayne, will you be touting M$'s values when Longhorn is released?

I'm not touting Microsoft at all, nor am I defending their virtues or lack thereof.  What I am saying, and will defend is the fact that Windows may not be perfect, but it's a damned sight more usable than AmigaOS will ever be, or ever has been.

You make claims of not wanting it all bundled in, but I personally find that while AmigaOS is stable on it's own, the very minute I start adding anything as simple as a browser, the machine becomes inherently unstable.  I can crash any Amiga standing within 7 minutes without trying.  

I am now going on 178 days without having to restart my Windows XP box due to a crash, and I use it every single day at least 10 hours per day.  I make my living on this box.  There is no Amiga on the planet which can claim that.  Hence I have absolutely no interest in a faster version of an antique and commercially unsupportable OS on a proprietary, overpriced and underpowered PowerPC.  

Give me the hardware independence promised by Bill McEwen in the beginning, or nothing at all.  After all, as the owner of four machines, all faster than the AmigaOne --  even at 1 Ghz -- and each capable of running Linux, exactly what is my motivation to spend extra money for a slower, proprietary, non-supported machine?

But then again, to each his own.