POLL: Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today?

[persia]

Both.  Living Dead munching on brains.

[persia]

The song is about the game portal which doesn't run on an Amiga.

Opus wrote:
eets ALIVE!!!!

very much alive, join efnet IRC #amiga, 40 users or more, I think Eric Schwartz says it best here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q .

those saying dead are either lying to us or to themselves.

[persia]

[persia]

Hold a door open!  The Aspire is terrible as a doorstop compared to an Amiga.

the_leander wrote:

KimmoK wrote:
Alive.

It can be used professionally again.

Care to cite a situation where an Amiga could do a job at least as well as even a £160(Comet) Aspire A1 netbook?

[persia]

Anubis is not Amiga, it's a few ex-AROS folks trying to create their own GUI on top of a Linux kernel.  Nothing Amiga there.  Also so far all I've seen of it is a Jpeg running on various one board.  A jpeg in the outside world is not considered an OS....

[persia]

Yep, the Aspire runs leopard like a champ and Final Cut Express runs fine on it.  Can you do HD Video on an Amiga?  Get the video from my industry standard AVCHD-format video recorder?  Use a Firewire video source?  import still images  in PSD, BMP, JPEG, PICT, PNG, SGI, TARGA, and TIFF formats?  Mix DV (NTSC and PAL) and HD formats in the same Timeline?

The Amiga Video Toaster is ancient technology with no relevance to the 21st century.  Shoot some video on a video recorder, mix in text, still and DVD source, preview it real time and upload it to youtube, and do it without a Mac or PC....

[persia]

It does work, I can't say it's exactly snappy and it won't replace my dual Quad core Mac Pro, but it does work.  A 2nd GB would probably help a lot, it depends what you are expecting, the Aspire is never going to be a video powerhouse but it's great to have if you're not at home and need to do an edit or two.

OS X makes far better use of Intel processors than Microsoft does, and scales far better, funny to say since Apple's been on Intel for three years and Microsoft has been there for almost ten times longer, but it's true.

orb85750 wrote:

orb85750 wrote:

persia wrote:
Yep, the Aspire runs leopard like a champ and Final Cut Express runs fine on it.  

You're running Final Cut on an Aspire *ONE*? (re: original question)  What type of pro hacking was required to get Leopard up and running on it?  Easy enough?  Total cost of system with above software and any required hardware upgrades?

Persia, can you show us Final Cut on the entry-level Aspire, or are you guessing that it works properly?