Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?

[spirantho]

Agreed with Kronos. Scrap the design, and build a more suitable one with Varisys.

If you do that you also need to treble the estimated price.... which destroys the entire point of making a netbook in the first place....

[spirantho]

I have enough LPs recorded to fill 16gb many times over, and I've only recorded a few hundred of my LPs, about 20% of my collection. No downloads for me at all (no point having a decent audio system and putting lossy compressed audio through it!).
My needle-drops are 200khz (100 for mono) variable bitrate OGG Vorbis (much better than mp3), so they're nothing unusual.
Incidentally Sansa mp3 players are great for OGG and FLAC - can't do that on an iPod.

Heck, I could fill 16GB in about 50 tracks (as long as those were tracks were by Yes or Genesis or something )

However, I am - of course - in the minority. Most people I meet just use a digital five-finger discount.

One thing though, this isn't a new phenomenon. Anyone old enough knows that in the 80s you could walk into many shops and buy blank tapes, C15 for computers or C90 for audio.... and nobody ever believed they were all being used to make new games and music. Then it was blank CDs. Now "blank" ipods. It's nothing new.

[spirantho]

Let us not forget Jethro Tull, or Focus, ELP, or Pink Floyd...

Hehe. I always knew Amiga users had taste.

[spirantho]

Does Ben Hermans ever post on Amiga.org or any other Amiga forums? If not, why not?

If I were him I wouldn't post here. Too many people here with axes to grind. I'd imagine he'd go to the more os4 friendly forums.