Takers - One Woman's Opinion of the Amiga Mini

[haywirepc]

Sometimes I think they do mean well but its hard to please people.

Here's what I think.

1) PPC is dead, dead, dead.

2) No matter what they made people would bitch.

3) PPC is still dead.

4) Hyperion ****ed them out of using AROS but people are complaining they are not using an amiga os. It could have been aros, if hyperion didn't **** them into using linux instead. If you feel that strongly about wanting an amiga  os on what they are making, petition hyperion to let them use aros and stop bitching about it.

5) That vic slim is damn sexy. I could think of great things to do with one of those... Or a few of those around my house.

6)  PPC is still dead.

7) When you pay for a premium company name made pc, you pay more. A dell cost more than a no name. Thats life. They deserve to get a bit more for their pc's than a no name gets. regardless of parts, price of parts, whatever.


All the pr problems they had could be fixed by shutting up and getting product out the door. This is hard to do if your really working your ass off.
and have to take alot of time I suppose to defend your efforts and your vision. I don't envy anyone in that position, because it sucks. If you shut up your dodging questions. If you speak your damned for speaking your mind.

9) A reboot of the commodore continuity and amiga timeline is a difficult task.
What an incredible story commodore and amiga have had. Imagine suddenly inheriting that, and suddenly being responsible for that legacy. Anyone's shoulders would be bruised by such a burden.

10) PPC is still dead, dead dead, so don't bitch they went x86. At least they acknowledge reality when planning their projects.

my two cents.

Steven

[haywirepc]

Originally Posted by smerf  
Quit playing around with old junk arcahiac soon to be obsolete CPU's, just develope an operating system for the average PC.

You're against archaic CPUs, so you're endorsing an architecture from 1978?

Yes but its an architecture that has survived in the desktop and laptop market, unlike ppc.

PPC is dead dead dead.

Maybe someone should start a bounty to get aros native drivers for this amiga mini, just to stick it in hyperion's ass.  I'd contribute to that and I don't even want one of those. I just don't think hyperion should stop someone from distributing aros with ANY computer, especially considering how much hyperion has benefited from work the AROS camp did.

God forbid someone choose x86 so they don't have to pay 3,000$ for a computer that a 50$ used mac mini matches.

"I just want an OS I can use, AROS isn't out of beta stage yet." - Really? and OS4 is? When did that happen? hahaha.


Steven

[haywirepc]

AROS 68k looks like its coming along great. THANK you guys for all your hard work. What will the amiga inc. and amiga forever grave robbers do now?

[haywirepc]

I can understand why people like ppc I suppose, since many legacy apps can be run on it if they are system friendly. Unfortunatly, most amiga games and many apps were never written to be system friendly, so that leaves very few apps that don't require an emulator.

Unfortunately, fpga could be a solution for amiga future but can't really be a solution because os3.x is closed source. Maybe aros 68k will change that.

People can complain about cusa using linux but...

Its got smp, tons of applications, and is much more technically advanced. I don't know the legalities of why they can't advance that idea further and create a workbench like file structure and gui, but apparently they can not do that or risk legal actions, which is a shame. This idea once proposed as annubis. (linux underneath an amiga like os file structure and gui) Me, I think thats a fantastic solution for this whole debacle.

Then you could have an amiga like os on an amiga branded pc that ran all legacy apps beautifully and seamlessly. The amiga look and feel would be preserved, but what if you added a new piece of hardware? (Almost anything these days has linux drivers) It would just work. period. Can't do that on aros, morphos or os4 (and you never will be able to. NEVER)

So maybe COS as much as it was mocked here was just a first step in the right direction. If they finished the job (and were legally allowed to) I think everyone who likes amiga would be incredibly happy with the results.

I don't know what will happen, but its fun watching.
As the boing ball turns...

[haywirepc]

I wish all camps the best, including even cusa now.  
At least the old girl is still alive.

Steven