A1 release date

[olegil]

Whatcha mean AmigaOne release date? The AmigaOne was released to end users in February this year. Earlybird, but still end users.

The product we're WAITING for is AmigaOS4 to run on it. And the release date for the AmigaOne version of that has not been set because it's still unknown.

The CSPPC version is still being aimed for September (about a month from now, +- a few weeks for accidents that happen last minute). The AmigaOne version then follows immediately after that. I'm still confident that we'll see it this year. But the AmigaOne has been released, there's no question about that.

[olegil]

Well, to me it looks like people aren't even aware that the AmigaOne is shipping and has been for half a year.

To be quite frank, it's not Eyetechs fault that earlybird users who have never even tried Linux decide to install it and play without even reading a manual. Yes, we had some problems with kernels. But we also had a LOT of problems with people not knowing how to upgrade Debian or shut down their computers without doing things they shouldn't have. Linux isn't like AmigaOS. If you break a file in /etc/, you might not get it back up again. Yes, you can "start with no startup-sequence", aka go single user. But you would have to know the system to work from there. Not throwing dirt here, it's just that people who expect to know everything about Linux after a day of using it are wrong...

Hopefully we'll see OS4 soon, I agree with that ;-)

[olegil]

Uhm, you're going to buy a G5 2.5GHz because Windows/Office/PC games require more than 2GHz?

You know there won't be a Windows version to run on it, right?

Come on, engage your own brain, ok? The only one of the above that actually SHOULD benefit from that kind of CPU power is games, and gamers around the world are using XBox, Gamecube and PS2. None of these can compete with a 1GHz G4 and a new graphics card. I agree that OpenOffice is a BEAST and requires at least 6GHz of CPU power (I only have a 2.2GHz P4, and I weep every time I use the frelling thing), but all my other things run just fine on the G3/G4.