Ottawa Amiga Show: AmigaOne Micro "C" show pricing

[Waccoon]

$1,000 for a G3 system? Are they mad?

*cough*

To be fair, it at least has built-in graphics, which is at least SOME improvement from the AmigaOne released quite some time ago *hint hint*.

I can't believe they're still using that damned Missing In Action chipset, either.

I'd expected at least a G4-1GHz!!! (Yes I'm aware that clock for clock, they're pretty much comparable except for Altivec.)

I just bought an Asus P4 3.2Ghz motherboard for a friend for $120.  It has four Serial-ATA ports, RAID IDE, eight USB 2.0 ports, HD Audio, uses cheap DRAM, Gigabit LAN, has no fans at all on the motherboard...

...of course, it also has that horrible, horrible LGA socket and rediculously flimsy and unstable "snap-on" Intel cooler.  Amiga isn't the only one who's gone mad.

[Waccoon]

Better value comparable system ? Oh ok then :

Apple eMac

Easy if you make tons and tons of them.  Amiga is not Apple, and they should stop pretending to be, and stop deluding themselves into thinking that they know what they are doing.

.. oh yes and an OS that is finished!

That's what ticks me off the most.  All this fuss to get superb hardware out there... to run Linux.  You can run Linux on any damn board in the universe.

I wonder how long it will take to release OS 4.1 -- which, technically, I'm supposed to get for free, too!

How could Eyetech possibly produce cheap A1 motherboards, when the Amiga market is so small?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Amiga Inc. (KMOS, whatever) be making these boards and not Eyetech?  Eyetech wants to make proprietary hardware under a license from Amiga/KMOS to ensure they can sell and fully control their *own* stuff and not some recycled PC hardware.  That's what all this proprietary crap is about -- control and licensing, not quality.

Actually, speaking of recycled hardware, can anyone take the micro A1 seriously seeing how it's basicly just a shrunken down AmigaOne?  Where's all the *new* stuff like SerialATA, USB2.0, and support for vanilla DDR?

Everyone should remember what happened to the FIRST AmigaOne.  You know, the one with the A1200 connector?