Read this thread and then ask yourselves why Amiga Inc. may possibly not care about the Amigans.
Honestly - look at it. Go on. Read the thread.
Back yet?
Look at the whining. The moaning. The carping. It's PATHETIC.
"This machine is $500 and it doesn't even come with any RAM". OF COURSE it doesn't! It's basic supply and demand Demand is FAR lower than for a PC, hence supply must be lower. Supply is lower, so economies of scale don't apply in anywhere near the same amount as a PC motherboard. In what kind of dreamworld could an Amiga exist at the same or even close price point as a modern PC?
"This machine is only 400MHz! My phone is more powerful!" - that's complete nonsense, there's a WORLD of difference between a 400MHz platform like this and a 400MHz phone, go check out the hardware designs before throwing such nonsense around.
"400MHz is ridiculously slow compared to 4GHz x86" - well spotted, Sherlock. Point is that you don't NEED a super fast CPU to run AmigaOS. It'll take a long time before the Amiga catches up with PCs in CPU speed because we don't NEED to - we have a fast, efficient OS, unlike the Vista dog. We don't have the software that needs such a fast CPU anyway (there's no 3DS Max or anything) and 400MHz is plenty fast enough to run AmigaOS and a large number of apps. And this is for a low end machine. If you want faster, you get faster when it comes out.
"1GB memory isn't enough for me!" - unless you're doing large graphics manipulation or video processing, you don't need it. I don't think I've come close to using my 512MB on my AmigaOne. And if you do do large graphics or videos, then you're going to use a Mac or PC anyway because those are the platforms with the software like Photoshop.
People seem to think this is an Amiga to compete with PCs. It's not. It's an Amiga to get people using AmigaOS again, to rebuild the userbase. To get people developing. To get numbers up.
Once enough people are using it, then we can worry about getting it up to the specs PCs have, but until then there's NO POINT. 99.9% of computer users will continue to use the Macs or PCs they already own anyway, no matter what hardware you throw at AmigaOS.
Looking at this thread I can see why Amiga Inc may want to write off the classic Amiga users as they, given what they've been reduced to. I wouldn't bother, that's for sure.
Oh, and to all those people complaing about Amiga Inc being Scumbags or whatever because of this court action, have you actually bothered to read why it's come to this? Checked out all the facts on both sides? You think Amiga Inc didn't think about what they were doing and realise the fall-out that would happen?
OK, rant over. Now come on guys, get together and do something constructive. SUPPORT the Amiga system that we all want to succeed. HELP each other, stop knocking each back all the time.
You don't like the new Amiga? Fine. Go somewhere else. Buy something else, whatever. You do like the new Amiga? Good, welcome on board. Simple as that.
