And now... the waiting.

[FluffyMcDeath]

Well, my old A4000 PPC/060 never came back from the dead. Well, it sort of did if I took the Picasso IV out of it, but I couldn't really look at that screen anymore. Need bigger, less flicker. Can't go back.

So now I've mailed off the order and I await my uA1. *sigh*. It's been hours already. When will it arrive?!!

[FluffyMcDeath]

adolescent wrote:
I still can't get over the price.  How much did you end up paying if I might ask?  (and specs please)

It's this one.
micro A one

I went for a prebuilt job as I don't have a lot of tinker time right now. The price seemed pretty reasonable. It's about what I paid for a 4000 some years back. It's about twice what I paid for a PPC/060 board. And it'll be the first bit of not pre-owned kit I've bought in years. I'm pretty excited.

[FluffyMcDeath]

xeron wrote:
@FluffyMcDeath

But as for waiting... phew... I know waiting.

Alien / BoXeR !! A-Box etc.

Yeah, there's been a lot of vapour. I've learned to wait until something actually ships. It's just so cool that this thing EXISTS. That in itself makes it so extraordinary I need to buy it!

[FluffyMcDeath]

x56h34 wrote:
@FluffyMcDeath:

Did you just post an Amiga related thread? :-o

He he. Two or three times a year, just to stir things up. :-D

[FluffyMcDeath]

bloodline wrote:

Wow!!! That's a fair chunk of cash!! Still the case is quite nice.

Yup. But then again, compared to what. Like I said, my A4000 was a comparable amount, and the video card and PPC/060 added together are again a similar amount.

Also, this year I have spent $800 to fix my car and it isn't fixed yet!!

However, I don't look at it as a matter of cost, but of value. I know I could get a pretty decent x86 system for a third of the cost, but I don't want one so $500 is too much for me to spend on one (even $200 really considering that you can grab decent machines out of dumpsters and I have!!).

The A one exists, I can afford it and there's a version of OS4 running on it. That sounds like a bargain to me.