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Re: Amiga killer?
« on: November 14, 2010, 09:52:50 PM »
I have nothing against Atom-based netbooks (my Eee is my go-to computer for daily tasks and time-killing, when I'm not farting around with my older machines or consoles,) but what? That's nothing like what people are drawn to the Amiga for. I suppose if you're an AROS user that might be a nice choice for mobile use, since it's got to be built out of components with open-source driver support, but I fail to see how that would be any kind of threat to the existing Amiga userbase, or how you even could kill a currently non-commercial product.

P.S. "cloud" is rapidly joining terms like "multimedia" in the list of buzzwords used solely by people who have no idea what that would actually mean or imply.
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