Guru Meditation Offers AmigaOne XE Repairs

[drHirudo]

As usual the antiAmiga people are doing their trolling through negativity, and probably they have missed to read that tiny sentence on the newsitem:

If you purchased your board directly from Guru Meditation, only payment for the shipping costs are required.

In fact it's not that tiny, relative to the whole text, why they didn't read it, escapes me.

If you are near Guru Meditation you won't even need to paid the shippment I guess.

I was one of the unfortunate persons who bought a defective 80GB Seagate HD model, which overspindled the head, corrupting the bootsector and making the partitions dissapear. I heard it's a firmware flaw. It was manifactured by Seagate but I haven't contacted Seagate about the problem, also I don't think they would answer about this. Neither I tried sending it to them for replacement. Just searched their site for some information about this, but found nothing about the problem, I read it on another site. What I did is that I just took the HD to my vendor told them about the problem and that I want to replace it with another model. So it was replaced with another without any additional cost. I asked what about the data. They just smiled at me.

[drHirudo]

Not negativity, a little thing called cynicism that we human beings evolved, and found in the more intelligent of our species.

I respect you ego by saying that your are in the more inteligent part of your human species, but after reading this:

(Possibly we evolved it while knocking our head against palm trees to get coconuts, where it was useful to preserve us against giving ourselves brain damage banging our heads against oak trees waiting for coconuts.)

I must clarify that only someone with extremely poor biological knowedge would say this. But what we know the nonhumans. Whatever back on the topic.

The A1 situation sucks.

Hearing this from a person who doesn't own A1 at all, sounds little untrustworthy at least.

Having to get an essential repair done when you've just purchased the (very expensive) thing sucks.

Can you explain me what essential repair I have to get done with my microAmigaOne?
Can you tell me where I can purchase XE board which will need the repair just after I get it, now?

Having to have your warranty invalidated to get that repair sucks.

Some of the XE boards have been purchased more than two years ago. How their warranty will get invalidated when it have expired already?

But what sucks most of all, is whining and labeling people ordinary people "Anti-Amiga" because they realise how crappy the situation is and don't like it.

If you haven't noticed these ordinary whining and labeling "Anti-Amiga" people have the same names, don't have A1 hardware at all, and some other common among them is that they are posing most of the time their interest in other hardware, which is always irrelevelant to the discussion at all. I  understand why this situation sucks for you. This sucks for me as well.

And if you haven't noticed I am being sarcastical, something which is little harder to do than being cynical. If you really believe your evolution theory just go knocking your head and one day your species might get enlightened about this.

[drHirudo]

I have to admit I mostly read "discussions" like this, as an observer, which pretty much happen on another sites, where some of the posters can remain anonymous, and I always try to stay away from them because as evidenced here, everyone with *any* different opinion can be crucified by someone else who doesn't have the same view of the subject, especially if he is a known person. I also sorry that I posted here, by seeing what came after. But the response is quite understandable. The Amiga is no longer mainstream platform for more than 12 years now. The Amigans who left got so much passionate about their platform after all these years. While the people from the other parts of the computer world have cheap hardware, good software base, and decent support, we have to put much more money for slower solutions and no support at all. And this won't change. Not only this, but there is always a risk. The people who bought the AmigaOne XE took the risk of buying untested betaboards for the sake of seeing the platform advance. I am glad they did that because without them probably there wouldn't be any AmigaOS4 version available, even as prerelease. I wish to thank them all for taking the risk. And as shown there they are not left alone.

 Currently the Amiga doesn't have any enemies, since nobody of the outside cares anylonger about it, not to mention pretty much nobody even remembers it, except the Amigans themselves, who got divided long time ago. And that's the main problem.