Will you be buying an AmigaOne X1000 ?

[runequester]

I think AROS is the only real way forward, but I do have a keen interest in OS4.
In the end, I dont have the cash to splurge on it, but if I did, I'd probably get one.

[runequester]

Well, if it still is unclear to anyone: No, I am not buying one of these things.

Besides I already have a dual 2.5GHz G5 system to play with. I paid 300 eur for it.

I dont think anyone who has ever read any OS4 related thread on this forum was in any doubt mate

[runequester]

From the responses so far, he has his answer, very very few on AO are planning to buy a A1X1K.  No matter how much spin/hype or sunshine being blown where the sun don't shine is going to change the fact it's over priced and underwhelming capabilities.  If the A1X1K is ever released to the public, I fully expect to see within 12 months smartphones with better benchmarks then the A1X1K.  

We need today's and tomorrow's solutions now, not solutions from the 1990s.

There are no solutions and there likely wont ever be.

Every breed of it, morph, os4 and aros are playing catch up perpetually and they will never be able to match the amount of money, weight or mass thrown behind windows, linux and os x.

"amiga" is a hobby that occasionally strays into the realm of general computer use and I can't foresee anything changing that.

[runequester]

Selling overpriced stuff doesn't make you a fraud if the item does what it was promised to do.

Otherwise, Microsoft and Apple would have been out of business years ago mate.

[runequester]

Neither of whom are selling a netbook spec'ed machine at 1500 quid....

From the world english dictionary

1.   deliberate deception, trickery, or cheating intended to gain an advantage
2.   an act or instance of such deception
3.   something false or spurious: his explanation was a fraud
4.   informal  a person who acts in a false or deceitful way

"selling something thats expensive" doesn't seem to be one of the definitions.

[runequester]

Oh I didn't realise this was deliberately obtuse day!

His comment was clearly in regard to Microsoft's and Apples product lists.

This was understood.

However, claiming someone is a fraud for selling an expensive item is absurd, whether or not that item is overpriced.

Is the company trying to sell something that is not what was advertised ?
Then its a fraud.

Selling something you don't like or charging more money for it than you think is reasonable is not a fraud.

[runequester]

The warranty shops offer is usually a rip off.
If your computer makes it past the first 3 months, it'll probably make it 5 years easy.

THats of course if you saved the receipt, original box etc etc, or they'll probably refuse to fix it anyways, unless you cough up more cash.

Oh and they try to convince you that you need to take out an extended warranty for a few hundred quid, if these machines are so unreliable that you need to be covered by said warranty in the first 3 years then they must be absolute crap to start with.

[runequester]

No. Cannot be used for anything useful in the real world and lacks any retro value that an old real Amiga might have.

Eh ?

"anything useful" is pretty broad. 99% of the crap normal people use computers for can be done on a far more modest machine than what the hardcore geeks think it "needed"

[runequester]

The X1000/SAM doesn't even offer that though. Not because of hardware limitations, but because there simply isn't the software.

Couple that with the fact that a huge chunk of the Amiga's back catalogue is only available through UAE and you're left with the question "why the hell did I pay $2-3k for something that could be outdone by a machine costing a 5th of that?"

Yeah, the app limitations is the thing that is crushing the "next gen" amiga options.

[runequester]

Indeed. Although the hardware options themselves aren't all that attractive even from the context of running Linux on them.

But both poor software support and overpriced hardware... Yeah that'll go down well in the wider market...

I still think the Pegasos ones seem to have been the best bet for a "modern amiga".

As far as I can tell, they weren't monster expensive. Of course things hadn't moved as far either at that point.


These days, I think we're safely in "hobby only" territory.