ACK And Amiga Inc. Announce New Hardware Platforms.

[guru-666]

Uhh I look forward to spending money on an outdated PPC machine!  
PPC is history, I already have a PPC amiga.....
anyway this is so 1999.

check out

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Now thats a real OS... very frendy just like the old amiga OS and so much more software than OS4!

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@thomas
You are right, ubuntu it is so much better than amigaOS ever was or will be.  Good point.  

And YES you are right about PPC also.  intel is better just becasue it faster and cheaper.  Maybe Amiga  Inc will take a loss on each unit just like Sony... that WOULD make me happy!

BTW no xbox360...I don't care for it.  Quite a but slower than the "CELL" the ps3 has.  I don't have one of them either... No need to spend money on toys, have plenty clasisc amigas!


I agree the concept of a new amiga is misguided.. a time that has come and gone.  The face of computing has changed and Amiga Inc will not be part of it. That being said I will still be using my a4kt with great pleasure and won't be donating any cash for mister Bill McEwen for some thing that should have been released in 1999.

cheers!

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@Thomas
Yeah sure xbox looks good today.. give the ps3 some time, next year you will see the difference.  
Being in the 3d industy I happen to see quite a bit of stuff being developed and the ps3 is looking much stronger.  I the end I don't care who wins, but I KNOW the ps3 is stronger.

OS4 is a nice "pet" project but simply can't compeat with a proper OS.  More "responsive" to do what? There are options other than linux for embeded system, for example QNX... amigaOS is full of issues, not to meantion that you have to deal with amiga inc to use it! :-P

@xeron
Enjoy your "windows"....  As spidy said "with great power come great responsobility"  Not everybody can handel that!

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@billchase

well you know when I was little boy I wanted a fire truck...now I don't so much anymore.

So if you parents gave you everything you ask for (as a kid) at age 40 I don't think you would be *as* thrilled as you would have been when you where 13....you MIGHT even be frustrated with them.
(in the computer world missing your dealine by 8 years is about 27 human years:-) )

back in 1999 I wanted to upgrade my amiga and keep doing animation with it...today I'm honestly happy to have moved on as new better alternatives have come up.  A new amiga is no longer on my wish list.  Even in 1999 I already had been using SGI and windows to get big jobs done but still thought the amiga could catch up... In 2007 how that pitifull crew will manage to catch up with where multi-media and animation (let alone OS design!) is today should be quite entertaining.
Does Amiga-Inc even own the OS? Or do they just assume as long as we ask them 20 question every so often they own it all?


I understand there are lots of people on this site that are obsesed with the amiga platform making some kind of massive comeback and a fraction of those people will buy ANY new amiga product...but if you look at history and the current market, it's well a joke.

As for this whole thing, let's wait and see if anything even happens...but Bill blew the timeframe.  The last thing the computing world needs today is a new amiga... sorry, painfull to watch this unfold.
:huh:  :horse:  :popcorn:

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@xeron
Buy a mac? Why I already have one...OSX (os10!) is o.k... I perfer my linux/bsd/unix strait up, thanks. I may be the only one, but I HATE that glossed over candy apple GUI. I also hate OS's that assume I'm an incompetent user... but thats just me.
I honestly sounds like you *like" windows... that's o.k.  If OS4 where availabe and able to run killer aps like Maya or houdini, I would give it a shot.  (it would also have to run my EXISTING hardware)

If you want a UNIX type system that has a nice balance between power and ease of use try ubuntu 7.01.. it's just as slick as OSX (IMHO)
http://www.ubuntu.com/  
it's free unlike OSX and will run on lots of cheap/existing hardware!

BTW I never had to touch a text file to configure my gigabit ethernet network.  I can see all my other boxes, windowsXP, OSX as well as my local NFS server... Honestly (for me) I was harder on my windows and OSX boxes!  Heck I even run some windows apps on ubuntu via wine!

I don't know who amiga-inc thinks the amiga community is but where not just a buch of out of touch freaks what will use any hardware and OS that has the amiga name on it at any cost.