AmigaOne 500

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It will proberbly be released soon, or maybe later, being delayed, by mysterious reasons..

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I am so disappointed...I was expecting some kind of SAM below 1000$ and all we get is the same product with a different casing....

Commodore Amiga lesson: Want it?, make it!  

Looks about like any other boring-ass micro-ATX case, and you can get other boring-ass microATX cases for well less than the $200-400 difference between this and the cost of a SAM 460ex setup from Vesalia.

It's for those that lack capability to assemble by their own means I guess..?

But I suppose that wouldn't have the Holy Sticker, would it? (I mean, Christ, it's already got the Holy Name...)

You will burn at the stake! Anyone found without the holy sticker will have to use Windoze on x86 for eternity

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I think people should remember that ACube put those Minimigs on sale for 129 EUR. That helps a lot.

As for the AmigaOne 500, it's likely not even Amiga 500 compatible as the name would lead one to believe. However for persons that doesn't have time, but have money. Or persons just plain technically inept to use a screwdriver and install OS etc. It's probably a nice choice if you like everything served. Point being it's a service, not a playfield changer like Minimig or FPGA Arcade.

Custom electronics is expensive. But most of these solutions seems to be commodity computing platforms that gives way to little in the MIPS/money factor. Even if the PPC is a nice CPU.

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If you don't have the 10 minutes it takes to install a motherboard in a case or (is this even possible?) can't figure out how to put it in place and use screws to secure it, you should not be using a computer.

It's a feature not a problem .. !

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So how does the application offers differ between AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS2.x ..?