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

[meega]

Only 1GB RAM? Not enough these days.

[meega]

drHirudo wrote:

meega wrote:
Only 1GB RAM? Not enough these days.

Cool, the "Slam and trash it" team is already here!

My AmigaOne works great with 256 MB, sometimes when compiling stuff with best opimisation I run out of memory, but that's very rare. On the other hand my A4000 works great with 18 MB RAM, and it's enough these days for classic Amiging.

Shall we work down the rest of the spec to see why a lot of (possibly most) people would regard this as an under-equipped machine for the modern era?

Yes, the "classic" Amiga worked very well with its resources, but every single one really needed expansion to do "serious" work. Only 1 (ONE) slot for only 1 (ONE) gigabyte is not enough to compete in the 21st century.

In my opinion.

[meega]

kd7ota wrote:
256MB is also plenty for Ubuntu Linux.  :-D

After web browser, mailer, mp3 player, GaIM, and watching a movie, only topped it to 180mb of ram usage out of 512mb and with only 30mb of pagefile used...

Now that is what I like to call efficient.  :-D

I have single images that take 100-200MB. Try editing one of that size, e.g. crop, requiring a second copy of the file in memory at the same time (no, I don't like pagefiles). That isn't even a large file.

For what it's worth, I do own classic Amigas.

[meega]

AmigaNow wrote:

For much less I can have 1 gb ram (DDR2) and 1gb LAN, USB, SATA. For under $500. Sweet.

It doesn't say that there is any RAM actually present...

[meega]

I'd still like a 3.5" floppy drive in there.

[meega]

3" CD drive, is it?

(Hard to please, aren't I?)

[meega]

HammerD wrote:

meega wrote:
Only 1GB RAM? Not enough these days.

And just what OS do you plan to run on the new hardware that would make 1GB not enough?

Reread the entire thread, and you will see what I might use the machine for...

[meega]

Please, floppy drive, 3.5" and high density, they are bloody useful.