Corrie wrote:
I have read the specs of the AmigaOne and really it doesn't excite me that much. To me it simply looks like a PC with the potential to run the AOS4.
I am aware of money restrictions and so forth but I would have prefered the Amiga to make it's own hardware that was unlike anything else on the market, for example, a design of Zorro 4 slots to run Amiga only peripherals.
Well, unlike YOU I'm not made of money! I like the fact that my A1XEG4 system is $2000AUD cheaper than an A4000 (1992/3), and $3000AUD cheaper than an A3000 (1990).
Not to ignor the fact that the motherboard itself is cheaper than GVP's 1991/2
GForce 030/40/4 Accellerators for the
A2000.
Folk will add PCI-boards to these A3k/4k models just to avoid paying the prices for ZorroIII Cards.
Maybe I am dreaming a little, but thats why I got an Amiga in the first place, it was so different from all other systems on the market. I am simply not interested in using PC PCI peripherals in an Amiga. It defeats the purpose of having an Amiga in the first place, I might aswell use a pc.
Just a thought...
Dreaming was okay in the '80s - now, we have to be practical. Today's AGP Graphic cards outclass, and are more affordable, than ANY ZorroII/III Graphic card ever made! Even the CBM engineers realized that the existance of PCI made further Zorro-development unrealistic.
You are welcome to "use a pc" but that would limit you to UAE and AmithLon!
