Two New Full Systems Based on Sam440ep-Flex

[Digiman]

Price per megahertz the x1000 seems better value to me

[Digiman]

I already have a 500mhz PPC Machine (Mac Sawtooth) and it is too slow to even play Youtube videos. That machine cost me £5 so what would I do with a £800 machine that can't even be used to list up my ebay auctions and watch the odd Commodore gameplay video let alone record them and convert them to FLV for upload myself.

For £800 I expect enough CPU grunt to play 1080p video and 5.1 AC3 sound together @ 24fps. I expect it not to hang itself as soon as a complex webpage is loaded on a modern browser. I expect it to run Super Stardust AGA in 48khz 16bit quality upscaled audio without dropping a single frame in 1280x512 in 24bit colour mode on the desktop.

*pass*

[Digiman]

That's the problem, it's not economically viable product anymore while the alternatives costs are significantly less.  The bad calls Hyperion has made over the past ten or so years has them painted in a corner leaving them no where to go.  Time will tell, but I believe this is check-mate.

The alternative certainly isn't the crap C=USA produced after C64x.

The point is AROS is the only possible future for Amiga because it is the only OS that runs on Intel i7. Intel i7 has been the ONLY way forward as a CPU choice for computers for the last 36 months or more. NOTHING else comes close to price/performance of an i7.

So if anyone is making a new Amiga OS it needs to be x86-64bit. Not Linux mint based crap on Commodore OS. And the hardware needs to abandon looking at ARM or PPC NOW! ARM is a low power CPU for phones sorry NOT a £500 computer AND PPC is a dead end, has been a dead end since G5 was abandoned by Apple, and for good reasons.  

So you need Hyperion and MOS to stop f**king about and get on with an x86 ports IMMEDIATELY because SAM or X1000 based computers are NOT Amigas. Like I told you all millions of times ONLY Commodore designed Amigas, these are just  PPC machines that run some obscure kooky OS that has nothing to do with Commodore. MOS is even worse, I puke every time I see an Apple logo, how can a Mac running MOS be anything like an Amiga, idiots argument that one!

So as it stands there is no Amiga, if you just want to avoid using crappy Windows and OSX bloatware rubbish then AROS is your only hope. I don't want a door stop performance 400mhz computer for £800 or a smelly old Mac that has zero support and hard to find replacement parts for repair as my 'Amiga' I'd rather have a beautiful (looks better than any sh*tty Mac) PB iXtreme cool white PC silently running AROS if there is no chance of a real Amiga computer being launched (which as it stands ONLY Natami is even close to being called a real Amiga).

If it needs UAE to run Cinemaware code then it is NOT Amiga anyway so END OF DISCUSSION IMO. Whether it is running AROS/MOS/OS4 doesn't make any of these computers more Amiga than the other, because NONE can be called Amiga in any real sense of the word. Doesn't matter if is says A-EON, Apple or Dell on the motherboard, without a Paula chip the machines themselves are NOT Amigas.

YMMV :pint: