Alan Redhouse revealed the impressive future of AmigaOne!!!!! (from AmiGBG 2003)

[mikeymike]

Helgis, would you mind toning your mindless optimism down quite a few notches?  It's thoroughly depressing to think that anyone could still have your viewpoint on things after about ten years of waiting for something NEW.  And then add to that the amount of delays of getting A1 XEs to ship even without the operating system we all want on it.

I'm glad I decided to wait until OS4 is at least released (I want to see it in action first) before thinking about getting an A1, I don't know how unbelievably pee'd off I would be if I had gone for the earlybird offers!  I would have probably had several seisures by now!

[mikeymike]

@ Helgis75

I don't care about what you might say.

Well I guess that's that then.  Oh no, apparently not.

Jealousy?  What's there to be jealous of?  To me that's not an Amiga until it runs AmigaOS.  To me it may as well be an x86 box with a Celeron in running Linux, aka.  "throroughly unremarkable".  Until OS4 is released.  

As far as "we don't need your negative comments", is your hope that desperate that it can't take a little bit of balloon popping from the reality squad?

Be as hopeful as you like, I don't mind that in the slightest.  However, in a public forum, please try to be a bit more objective and realistic in your expression.  If I maintained anywhere near the amount of optimism and happy-happy-joy-joy over every little piece of news and non-news regarding Amiga as you do, and expressed that to my [non Amiga fan] friends, they would have probably killed me by now!  Even now I have to keep my trap shut because in reality, as far as solid new product offerings go, I have nothing to talk about!

[mikeymike]

@ alx

With the aid of cutting equipment, quite a few new screw-hole mounting points, and a general cannabilism of the inside of the case, perhaps :-)

More likely an A500 though, the A1200 isn't that deep.

But even then, why would you want to?  You'd have to throw out or adapter-ize 99% of the inputs between things like keyboard, drives, etc in order to manage it, and in the end you're only putting an x86 motherboard into a plastic case that says Amiga on it :-)