Here's the first specs for the new Amiga from Amiga Inc.

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Not quite Pico-ITX is it :-(

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Tahoe wrote:
Man, why is everybody so quick to jump the gun and dismiss this machine.
Why not just wait and see what happens?

All of you fools have fallen for the Mhz trap, you need higher specs machine etc etc blah blah. Come on. Wait and see it run first.

But it's 2007... not 1997! This is no Mhz trap, it simple fact that people don't want to pay for old tech.

IF this ever gets released, and if it will run any type of AmigaOS I will buy one. Come on, 400Mhz is waaaay enough to run a lean-mean OS. Sure, not Vista, OSX or whatever, but if I want to run any of those I'll buy a wintel machine.

So you are prepared to pay large sums of money just to run an OS... not a killer app, or some vital piece of software that you depend upon... just an OS... AmigaOS isn't lean-mean... it's just simple.

First I'll wait to see if anything gets shipped, ifso which OS included.

If...

The CPU is likely to be 68000 series compatible; right?

No... there are no 68K compatible CPU's the Coldfire comes close, but it's not. the 68k is EOL...

That means it's likely to run OS3.9 or AmigaDE or whatever it was called.

Err... no and no.

Or maybe AmigaDE=OS5 ?!

Cough...

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uncharted wrote:
Just out of pure curiosity, if I was to buy a complete PC (excluding monitor) for the same price how fast would the emulated Amiga  in UAE be in comparison to this system?

UAE would be MUCH faster.

Just thinking aloud here, but if the speeds of native code on the ACK board and emulated code on a low cost PC are comparable then wouldn't people be better off with the PC as they'd get full Amiga compatibility?  IIRC Amithlon was doing 400MHz speeds in 2001, surely UAE would be able to do the same 6 years later?

WinUAE would be MUCH faster and MUCH mroe compatible.

I haven't been in the market for a PC since 2000 or so and i haven't used UAE in rather a long time so I really am totally clueless about all of this.

You are perfectly correct... the cheapest, complete system from from Dell, would cost £320.. ~$600... that comes with a 17" LCD Monitor, 1 gig of RAM... 3Ghz CPU.. 160Gig Hard drive... DVD+/-RW... 13 in 1 Card reader... This system would run WinUAE to perfection...

Why would you bother to spend nearly that much on a motherboard alone... which is out of date, slow and barely compatible with you amiga software... just to run a simple, basic Operating System (with no bundled productivity apps... a la iLife etc...) that has name from your past?

Why?

WHY?