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Re: Commodore USA's Final Challenge to the Community
« on: December 21, 2011, 12:28:44 AM »
Let's dare to dream, the worst that can happen is C=USA disappoints us.  If we ask and they don't deliver that's their fault, if we don't ask, then it's our fault.  Natami is almost finished.  What if they could produce Natami in a case for a decent price?  What about a MOS/AOS 4 compatible PPC machine at something closer to Intel price performance ratios?
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Re: Commodore USA's Final Challenge to the Community
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2011, 02:18:55 PM »
At last, someone with clear vision...

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If nothing else, I have to give CUSA credit for staging a pretty fair reenactment of the Judgement of Paris.
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Re: Commodore USA's Final Challenge to the Community
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2011, 04:42:44 AM »
@Middleman

I think there's also a fair number of Mac users who chose not to answer your poll.  But of course Mac is Intel too.

As to the failure of Amiga the first go round, that I think was the fault of Commodore, and I think you can easily accept that since Commodore USA has absolutely nothing to do with the original Commodore except the brand name.  Commodore didn't feed money back into Amiga development, Amiga simply fell behind and by the time it shed itself of Commodore's incompetence it was too late.

I also think that the idea of traitors in electronics (or most any other consumer product) is silly.  I like macadamias, whenever I visit relative in southern Queensland/Northern New South Wales I gorge myself on their native nut.  When I get back home I eat cashews or walnuts.  Eating cashews or walnuts doesn't make me a traitor to Macademias.  I have several iOS tablets, I also have several Android tablets, using one doesn't make me a traitor to the other.  Life is too short to waste it on hating some brand because it isn't some other brand, but rather enjoying what you have and exploring the uses of what you have.

Brands come and go, how many companies have worn the Commodore brand in the computer market alone, not counting cars and other things.  Amiga means a certain thing to me, a link to places and times that were good.  An Amiga PC insults those times.  I won't allow one or my desk.  The PCs I use are either virtual or ones I put together out of parts.  I lose nothing by not purchasing Amiga PCs, I can put together a personal machine, with the parts I want.  There nothing unique to an Amiga PC, except a sticker, that, if the Commodore USA stickers are any indicating, I could print better myself.

It simply isn't possible to restart Amiga the way it was, cutting edge hardware, OS and Software, so what I would rather have is something in between, something that give me the ability to tinker and remember the past but also does more modern things  in case.  A PPC Amiga isn't idea, but it's all that can be put on the table at this point in time.
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Re: Commodore USA's Final Challenge to the Community
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2011, 07:59:38 PM »
@Duce

Add to that the number of posters on their website, something doesn't add up.  Oe of the beauties of being a privately held company is that their are no annual reports, no securities filings, nothing that reveals the actual strength of the company.  From everything I can see or read they look like a company with sales in the thousands not tens of thousands.....
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Re: Commodore USA's Final Challenge to the Community
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2011, 05:03:19 PM »
After careful observation it would have become apparent that the only way for C=USA to win would be to give the community what it wants.  This would cause the community to collectively spit the dummy and send it off in 30 directions at once.  Just like Tito's Yugoslavia we were united in collective hate of of a common enemy.  Remove the enemy and we would immediately start attacking one another.

This community deserve Amiga branded generic PCs...
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