The AmigaOne is NOT "just a Teron board"!

[Glaucus]

so if gigabyte buys Asus boards and calls them mambo rockets then their mambo rockets not Asus boards?

That too happens in the car market all the time.  Mitsubishi for example sold Eclipse parts to Chrysler that then built the Eagle Talon.  The Talon was eventually discontinued in the US but remained here in Canada since Mitsubishi does not deal in Canada (although I hear they are re-entering the market real soon, if not already).  So, when someone here in Canada bought a Talon, they were technically really buying an Eclipse even though Mits doesn't operate within Canada.  But Talon owners don't consider themselves to be Eclipse owners, if in fact they even know about the connection.

The Mits 3000GT and the Dodge Stealth were in the same situation.  And Ford owns Jaguar, but I doubt too many Jag owners would admit to driving a Ford lately.

Anyway, back to the argument at hand...  My argument in my previous post (or perhaps two posts ago) about how selecting and labelling an official platform makes good marketing sense still stands and wasn't really addressed.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

They could do the same thing LUNIX does, have minimum specs that would allow anyone to build a system.

Yeah, but:
1) Linux isn't marketted so to do the same as linux would be to do nothing

2) Linux is for geeks.  Not only do ya have to build your PC but your kernal as well.  Nothing turned me off from linux more then installing it on my PC.  After tracking down a linux driver for my NIC all I was able to come up with was a .c file.  That's when I decided to free that partition up for something more useful like WinXP.  Linux is great if you're into wasting many hours a day in front of your PC configuring, tweaking and recompiling the kernal.  No thanks!  The only thing to learn from linux is it's mistakes!

3) Building on point 2 above, Linux has yet to really penetrate the home market and it's games market has evaporated.  Why?  Perhaps because there is no LinuxOne!  If they could slap together some hardware and OS and sell it as a package linux  have a far better chance in the home market.  As it stands the chance that joe six pack will build himself a linux box is atronomically remote.  The idea is to make not only the AmigaOS user friendly but the buying process user friendly as well.  Unfortunately linux sucks in both departments.

  - Mike