The Next-Gen Amiga hardware

[WarPiper]

@ ALL

ok get ready, this is a long one...

ok I did not have the patience to read each and every one of these posts, but I have to mention something that may shock you, ready?, ok here it goes, I still know and associate with people that still use an AMD 850&1000 Mhz Atholon processor with a cheap old TNT 2 graphics card, I only use a tiny 1.4Ghz Amd with just an old fashioned Geforce 2 MX, and along with me and my friends and family, we dont really see a need to upgrade any further at all, our systems run fine and we are happy.

True as it may be, I did kinda sell off all my amiga systems, now I am left with just 2 A500 mobos, but that does not mean that I would never consider the AmigaOne, I can deal with an 800 Mhz machine for as long as it has Amiga OS 4 or comparable OS to Amiga OS, I am going to review the pegasus and amigaone at the QAUG (Queens amiga users Group) meeting this weekend.  I dont like linux, and I dont care what you say, it sucks and is only for for egg heads, but I will waite to see where the latest amiga motherboards go, I consider the peg board and the AmigaOne both Amiga's just like the IBM and a clone from (pick any company) is a PC.  My whole thing is SOFTWARE, I WANT TO SEE SOFTWARE, GOOD STUFF, NOT THE LATEST AMINET CRAP!!, that will be the deciding factor in my purchase, good software, and software that can be purchased through the locale store (optimum) not this mail order crap.

Maybe if the people who make the AmigaOne motherboards and the pegasus motherboards would come together with hyperion with the OS or what ever, then go out kiss up and suck ass to the business world thats out there like Microsoft and Apple did, and also donate systems to schools and universities, and also try to get contracts from companies to use the amiga systems like both IBM APPLE, Gateway, Hewlett Packerd, Comcrap oops I mean Compaq does then yea, I can see a viable future for our beloved new systems, the market for amiga will widen, the demand will be more and development will be great! (nice dream eh?) but untill they really put there best foot forward and try to get out of this niche market none of this will ever happen, there are also companies that could sponcer up and comming technologies, if they would just assert themselves.

[WarPiper]

not really wanting to side with either side, Amiga or Microsoft, but I have to say for those of you that has had alot of trouble with win98, win98se, ok win98 and 98se sucks donky d!ck, and XP is just a broken slob of an OS, but I realy do have to say that I dont really think that most of you really know how to operate a PC computer running those OS's,  NOW NOW BEFOR YOU ALL GET YOU PANTIES IN A BUNCH, on my laptop, there is win 98 since the release of 98, as a matter of fact it is the original manufacture install, and it runs fine, never had to reload it, my amd 1.4Ghz tower PC is windows 2000, windows XP and Mandrake Linux 9.0 (I am going to reformat the linux partition cause linux just blows) but I have never had to reformat my 2000 partition since I got it installed 2&1/2 years ago, XP I have reformated at least twice for virus though no fault of its own

Why do you guys have so many problems with your PC's, I am sure I do the same as you did, play games download music, surf internet, voice chat, video conferance, video edit (I love firewire) and word, excel, power point, outlook, and watch movies.  What is it that you guys are doing wrong that I am not? I kinda feel left out of the bitching circle for amiga users that hate other OS's.

[WarPiper]

@jahc

I am always installing new software, but never to my main boot drive, always to a differant partition or a second hard drive.

oh by the way, sorry if it seems like I come off like a know-it-all ass wipe in that last post, I just didn't know of a better way of expressing myself, and I am far from knowing all of anything.

[WarPiper]

@ jeffimix

ok, I will bite....

I happen to think that you are wrong about its whiney to ask for a lower price on the motherboard, sorry, I am looking forward to supporting the new system with a real OS (not linux) but I fear the huge price in the motherboard itself, man its alot, ok if the motherboard was like, lets say, $350 to $400, I would not even think a for a secound, I would just go and get it, thats it, but since most PC motherboards today go for between $70 to $120 and a 1.4 Ghz processor you can get for about on average (between AMD and Intel) $86 to 116, you are still looking at a cost (if the top of the line amigaone board was $400) on average about $200 more than that the PC equipment just mentioned, thats about double the price just for what is a niche market, and that would be fine, but no, the top of the line AmigaOne motherboard and processor is what $800?, I am not too sure, thats 4 times the price of the PC equipment mentioned above, 4 TIMES MAN!!!! COME ON, you dont see that as much to bitch about, then I need to live a few years in your shoes.

this is just my take on it and I am sure its the rest of everybody else's who are not walking around with money dripping from orifices that need not be mentioned here.

Please correct me if I am wrong on the price for the top of the line AmigaOne mobo, I compared the top of the line A1 board to 1.4 Ghz  Pprocessor with both very desent AMD and P4 motherboards becuase their processors and motherboards are faster than that of the AmigaOne's.

Its not about what comes on the motherboard and all its toys (sure they are nice but...), well you get the picture I am sure.

there just has to be somthing more there to intrest us in buying a AmigaOne motherboard besides that fact that you can someday run a PPC version of Amiga OS

Warpiper

[WarPiper]

@ Magnetic

I agree with you an the architecture, but hay, what am I gonna do, we need these over size puke buckets to get get buy in todays corperate world.

I really look forward to seeing the AmigaOne and the Pegasus, I am also really interested in Morph OS, I would like to see what it looks and feels like.

to me if it looks like an Amiga, feels like and Amiga, acts like and Amiga, then its an Amiga.

remember IBM's answer to windows, OS2 and OS2 warp, it still looked and acted and felt like windows PC, but did we rename it to EYE BEE EMM, no.

well, I am just ranting right now, probably making no sense at all so, I will see you at qaug, later man.

sorry for any bad spelling here, but I am rushing.