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Re: UK Mag Micromart Votes Amiga Best
« on: May 08, 2003, 11:56:23 AM »
One of the posters was quite correct when he said there aren't computers being made any more for the same market that the Amiga left. M$ may have a PC running windows in almost every home in the west, but I can't honestly say that I'd call a PC a home computer. Its more like your work computer gone walkies.

The thing that makes me laugh is that after over 10 years out of the scene theres still a massive market for a true home computer yet M$ have yet to truly work out what a home computer is.  A possible way back into the limelight? Perhaps, but there are other contenders out there who are realising the same thing: Yellowtab (the people who are making BeOS R6 - Zeta) are taloring their own offering to just this sort of market, with a lightweight easy to use OS thats as solid as a rock. Couple this with say a Transmeta based STB and you'd have a very tempting combination there. Ok it wouldn't be uber fast, but unless you're playing UT or games of that size who needs it?

Will Amiga do it? Only if they can sit down with all the various "factions" and try to get along. The current usergroup situation does little for whats left of their image.
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