Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?

[Boudicca]

I am trying...  -really, really hard- not to say anything negative... I really am (believe me)

But so far (ok, its only been 1 day), I have not found a single reason why this X-chip will be of any benefit for an end user such as myself, I am no hardware hacker or programmer.

Hmmm Not a bad point. Then again, 99% of all "users" have no facility to learn, thats why when Mr Dyson says regarding innovation is "After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology". Yet the current tools required to innovate are exclusive and prevent true discovery or are locked to prevent competitors.

An Amiga was and will be a way for people to learn and innovate.

[Boudicca]

I'd buy the $99 dev kit and plug it into a windows machine where I could actually use the development tools.

hmmmm sounds a bit cheap....was it Heathkit.....last dev kit with of any use I've seen costs a few bob more than that. Current Atmel and Arm kits are in the several hundred area and anything with a screen and keyboard you need be in the trade already. The current "Hardware" development is aimed at the trade not the innovators, its time that balance was redressed.

[Boudicca]

I agree with you, I networked my own entire house (5 rooms) for about £150 using ethernet over mains plugs, yes i have WIFI but that is firewalled from my network and purely used for internet access.

As no Amiga (or Amigalike) OS has any any WIFI support better than WEP (which is so easily hacked its a joke) you might as well not bother with any security.

Gaz

I just drilled holes. Nuff Said ! Then again.....there is awful lot of Cat5e running round the house

[Boudicca]

Pitty they weren't making a laptop. Sitting in Starbucks with an Amiga laptop would have been cool.

How are they able to call it the AmigaOne? Wouldn't that name have been registered to Eyetech?

Amiga Laptop are u serious, why on earth would anyone want a laptop.....I haven't payed for a laptop in years. I get dumped one annual for my sins for working in IT. A Laptop means I can work for others from anywhere at anytime, its slavery not a means of escape.

[Boudicca]

If I want to be ahead on technology, I have my linux computer for that.

U use linux on bleeding edge pc.....How quaint I'm using ubuntu 8.04 on basic P4 from 2005. Does the job. ! Its writing this post fine enough !

[Boudicca]

There you go: https://www.xmos.com/store 99 US$ for that.

And Atmel sets can be pretty cheap, too. Cypress even gives some of their PSoC kits away for free (at least I paid nothing). The days dev kits for embedded chips were insanly expensive are mostly over.

Thought as much...usb only....u want ethernet thats the next kit, audio the next and so on........by the time you have got everything u need you payed a hefty whack. Free is that the same sort of free I get my laptop by any chance on the basis of......work.

[Boudicca]

I was thinking cool from the point that no one would know what it was. I don't even go to Starbucks, but I would make a point of going a couple of times just to flash something people there had never seen before...and yes, I mean an Amiga and not my wanger.

From Boudicca's Evil Alter Ego...Boobica: Ah I though it was just me, but your right, there seems to be a thing about going into Starbuck's and flashing their wares......Frankly, its pretty dumb as I go for a coffee and piss myself laughing at the lonely folks in tweed jackets pretending to look like they had a flashy laptop and career, I always assumed they were unemployed and couldn't afford heating or their own wireless broadband. Anyone with a proper job and a laptop meet in Hotels or Pubs....its a tool.....not a Gucci Handbag.

If your into cool things to go and show off, the in thing is any Android Phone, specially the new Google phone, iPhone is so last year.

[Boudicca]

Ha Ha Ha Ha......i've just scan read the last five posts and its a comedy for sure.

What we lost or more what everyone lost was control. The bankers got wind that computers = cash and could do more than print cheques at the end of the month.

Once that "cat was out of the bag", the bankers made sure the people would consume the computer rather than "Think! what if!", now its "Don't Think! Enjoy!".

There is no way back, no bank worth its salt will fund innovation in a field of conformity.

Find something the Bankers can't see money in yet, there is where you will find your next learning nirvana, computers are dead.



PS Linux isn't ready for the desktop but Vmware View is.

[Boudicca]

From the A-eon site:
http://a-eon.com/news.html
"A-EON Technology and its partners Varisys, AmigaKit and Hyperion Entertainment would like to wish the whole Amiga community a happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year. 2011 promises to be an exciting year. AmigaOne X1000 Beta Testers should take delivery of their revision 2 Nemo motherboards during the first quarter of 2011 and all being well, commercial system will be available shortly afterwards."

So is anybody here a betatester? Just wondering what your thoughts are on this.

An NDA prohibits people discussing it. Sadly