Hi All,
Speaking from an end user prospective and assuming I just found out about this new computer called AMIGA and its new OS 4, I can say that it is very interesting and cool but when I look at the prices for the Motherboards I change my mind right away. They are too damn expensive!!!! The pricing for those mobos is ridiculous. Why would I spend $700 $800 just for a motherboard and an OS, which is still in pre-release stage, with a future that is still cloudy due to lack of future development plan, when I can have a PC and I can install windows or Linux, or BSD, or many more OSes out there?
I was a prospected customer but not anymore. The Amiga platform lost one client and keeps loosing many more like me. The only people I see buying it are old aficinados of this platform.
It is not about "how good is the hardware" anymore it is about marketing strategies. I agree that using a PPC as a CPU it is better, a different experience, faster, x1000 better. Would you pay $500.000 (Have not looked at car pricing here!!) for a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, Maserati to go to work every day and bring your kids to school and camping with it? I wouldn't!!!!
My point here is GET REAL People and if you still attached to the past and keep remembering about old times on Amiga 500 playing games with 512K or RAM, GET OVER IT!!
Open your mind and explore the new possibilities with current and more advanced hardware, which can still be affordable to everyone.
Don't get me wrong I love the Amiga platform and I have owened few in the past and I am currently still playing games by using WinUAE But There is no comparison between what's available for an Intel Platform today and others.
AROS is one hell of a wonderful idea I think. I wish there were more developers for that.
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