New amiga coming out 2010..is this a wind up?

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It's not an Amiga X1000, it's an AmigaOne X1000, A-Eon do not have permission to use the Amiga name.....

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You wouldn't get very far with AppleOne either, but let's face it, Amiga Inc aren't in any position to mount a battle over the name "AmigaOne."  They probably won't be able to trademark it, but you can't start a new company based on a product using somebody else's trademark, so plain "Amiga" for the X1000 is out of the question.  I've also heard the name BOINC.  

Hyperion have a lcense to use the AmigaOS name...

FYI, AmigaOne is using the Amiga name.  Or I won't get in trouble when I release my new DellOne machine?

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Virtual is the new reality!  There's nothing different about a VM, heck if Amiga were X86 you could run virtual Macs or PCs in it!  It makes no difference who's the host and who's the guest....

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Some X86 chips consume more power than others, that's why there are different CPUs for laptops.  It depends on your needs, my MacPro consumes more power than my iPhone, which is too be expected.  But as a retro enthusiast I realise that old equipment really sucks the juice, my Amiga 3000 draws more power than my MacPro, so I guess it's just what you need where and what you are willing to pay for.

Me, I'm more concerned that I have enough CPU power to do what I need/want to do, a lacklustre processor that consumes low power frankly doesn't interest me.  I've got a farm of intel cpus that don't really care what OS I run on them, they're cheap and pretty efficient, any OS should just run on readily available equipment and not rely on pricey specialised chips.

@All,

I'm not interested in an x86 OS. I don't wan't another power hog, I have one already. So please, no more x86. Power Miser computing is what I'm looking for, If I need some thing else I have a monster waiting.

Chris

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Maybe he's referring to a Military Spec PS3?

Please - can't we once and for all kill the misconception that a PS3 can match x86 in "computing power"? It cannot, not by a longshot. Yes, you can program the SPEs in a PS3 to do insanely limited tasks insanely fast, if programmed correctly.  But 99.99% of the time you're not interested in doing such limited tasks, and that 3.2GHz PowerPC is the world's slowest CPU with that clockspeed - ever! Running Linux, my old 1,33GHz G4 iBook runs in circles around the PS3 on ordinary daily tasks. The PS3 was interesting for HPC usage exactly because they often have the need to do the insanely limited computations, but ordinary people do not!

Sheesh!!!

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PPC isn't dead of course, IBM's latest Power7 development looks like a pretty potent processor.  If it can deliver hardware clustering it'll be quite the thing for your home super computer.

But what will the chip cost and how much to put it into a motherboard and how much can OS 4 really use the multi-core features/clustering?  And what advantage would this give a home user?

Really the problem is that the market has matured since 1985.  In '85 there was little software, computers in homes were unusual, mobile phones were 1G brick that had sparse coverage.  People used film cameras, records were the way to sell music, CDs were expensive and somewhat rare.  People still had music on tape!  Computers came with floppy drives and floppy drives actually had some use.  TV was analogue.  Domain names were brand new, people often used bang paths.  It was a different time.

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You wonder about someone calling a PentiumD modern, but that aside an Atom N270 draws 2.5 Watts on the flip side my Dual Quad Core (8 cores total) Mac Pro will probably draw 50 watts idle and 250 when it's pushed, but which machine would you prefer to do 3D animation on?

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Only if they made a very poor coding choice early on.  We don't know that they did.

And byteorder.