Takers - One Woman's Opinion of the Amiga Mini

[KimmoK]

originally Amiga Inc did not care about AmigaOS stuff, they just wanted to use Amigans. That pissed off the community.

later Amiga Inc did some things for the community, but I think it was too little too late.

Now Amiga inc is messing our world again by selling the name to get some $$$ and at the same time messing up chances of AmigaOS NG to utilize it's famous name.

but it seems C= is willing to do something to co-operate.
Our community can do nothing to stop Amiga Inc from selling the name again and again. But we can be open minded for co-operation.

Example:
I personally would welcome the AmigaMini case to be sold with mini-ITX AmigaOS4 capable motherboards, without the Commodore sticker, just with the Amiga engravings.

To me it seems possible (0.1% chance or so) that C= could be helping AmigaOS fans some way in the future.
(re: their offer at the end of the last year)

[KimmoK]

Well, with their "Amiga" computers ..., I don't see any difference.

IMHO, x1000 truly is different than the mainstream (and I do not mean it is not outdated or that it's any better etc...). But being truly different (even if only some geeky AOS way) should have some meaning to some people.

C=AmigaMini is just a few hundred dollar standard x86 that is put in chinese case with 2500+USD C=Amiga sticker.
(and my 50USD AmigaInc T-Shirt is far better in every aspect)

[KimmoK]

... Even the Atari ST I'd say was more famous for music use than the Amiga.

And that was not because Paula was bad. Actually Amigas audio was much better.
But Atari came with MIDI port (for Amiga you had to buy it separately) and had cheap highres black and white monitor. The display and MIDI was the key to Atari's success in Audio.


IMHO: even today PAULA is ok for Audio, it's 14bit calibrated output is very good.
Most standard x86 sound chips have things like loud background noice that make the audio experience very poor.