X5000 systems

[ferrellsl]

If industry professionals come to my house for parties and are impressed with my peg2 they will be really impressed with x5000 its EXOTIC COMPUTING

I hope you're being sarcastic because no real industry professional is going to be impressed by the current state of Amiga computing unless they're named Rip Van Winkle and just awoke from a 15 year long nap.

Oops...my bad...you ARE being sarcastic!  LOL!

[ferrellsl]

Well, some one is anyway.

But you're not very good at it.

Actually, I have a friend the I've known since the '80s that owns a firm that makes medical monitoring equipment (first place I saw wave soldering).
He'd be pretty impressed if I told him the low volume the hardware was being produced in, and showed him the overall quality of the work.
But then, he is a professional.

Ah heck, we've had this argument before, and your still a dork.

Nice to see that you're still in such fine form and unable to engage in any real dialog.  It's sad that you aren't intelligent enough to engage in anything other than name calling and flaunting your connections to "professionals".  And even more pitiful that you and your "professional" friend are still living in the 80's and believing that anything Amiga related is something to be impressed about.  You also need to brush up on your grammar and spelling.  Have you not yet figured out that there's a huge difference between the words your and you're?  They invented spell-checkers and grammar checkers back in the 80's.  You should learn to use them.  You might even be impressed by them since they're so high-tech by your 1980's standards.  The days of being impressed by anything Amiga passed away back in the late 80's but you and your "professional" friend apparently didn't get the memo.  Oh, but that's right, email didn't come along until after the 80's so I can see why you didn't get the message.

I'm not impressed one bit by low-volume hardware projects.  They're nothing new and these days, with this new-fangled thing called the internet, I can upload my own multi-layer PCB designs and have them fabricated, produced, and shipped to me in a matter of days.  There are quite a few companies that do this routinely.

Here's one:  http://www.4pcb.com/

and another:  http://www.custompcb.com/

[ferrellsl]

But it's the same old song and dance.  I was told I'd be impressed by my PegII, then by the X1000 and now by the X5000.  Performance wise these systems were all years behind off-the-shelf solutions that were available at the time and cost 2 to 3 times more as well.

Yes, it IS nice to have more hardware but to call it impressive from a performance perspective is more than just a stretch.....the cost is impressive certainly though.

But I will say that I am impressed with Trevor's tenacity and hard work.  Now if he could just get Hyperion to fulfill all the things we've been promised over the years for OS4 like multi-core support, etc.....

[ferrellsl]

Do enlighten us, how is it years behind? Sure it does not have USB3, but not much hardware really use it.

One question, not only adressed at you, but all the naysayers, who constantly tells us how far behind amiga is and how ancient it is, why are you here?
A-EON wons this site and other amiga sites, A-EON is mainly NG hardware. I am just puzzled why some one would spend so much time being negative.

Being a cheerleader for Hyperion isn't going to get you a better OS4.  How many years ago did they promise to deliver multi-processor support and stable USB?  I think I've been hearing that since 2004.  Hans has made great strides in the 3D graphics department but the Amiga is still years behind other operating systems in graphics and the areas I mentioned.  If you settle for mediocrity, then that's what you'll end up with.  What's wrong with demanding a better product and calling someone out for broken or unfulfilled promises?

[ferrellsl]

Neither is the opposite

 
Sure but it was not relevant before the X1000, besides the guys behind it are not counted by the hundred.




Yes that is why you have windows and mac. If all you do is stick to mainstream, then what you end up with is nothing special.


Uhhmm they stop producing products.

But all of the above is software, what I was asking about, and what was written about, was the hardware.

And again I ask you, why are you even here? If all you want to do is complain, then take it some where else.

You're living on another planet if you think NG Amiga's can hold a candle to off-the-shelf systems available today in either hardware performance or software.   The only thing keeping NG Amiga production alive today is a small core of die-hard users who are willing to pay the high prices for the next PPC motherboard that gets whipped up, not because there's a commercial demand of any significance.  The NG Amigas and classic Amigas will remain a high-priced hobby and a curiosity to most people and that isn't about to change.  If either of these systems could compete in the market place, they would be doing so right now.  I complain because I'm tired of cheerleaders like you who want me to believe that NG Amiga's are such a fantastic piece of high tech.  They are not.  They are an over-priced hobby project, which is just fine as far a hobbies go and if that's how you want to spend your money.  But to suggest that NG Amigas are technologically superior to what I can buy right now at a Best-Buy or other outlet is ludicrous.

Keep being the cheerleader and I will check back in another 12 years and see if that promise of multi-processor support was fulfilled.  I doubt it.  You're happy with mediocrity and you're willing to pay a premium for it and that's fine, but it isn't for everyone.

I won't be going away any time soon though.  I know that disappoints you, but telling me to "take it somewhere else" just makes you look childish.  You don't have to read what I write or even agree with it.  I know that might seem strange to you but that's how adults handle such things.  There's also an option in your account settings to just ignore anything that I post.....makes it easy for you.