AmigaOne question.

[Karlos]

I am still a little fuzzy on what the Amiga One is all about.  Is it %100 compatible will all legacy software?  From what I gather, it is almost completely different than all the old time Amigas.  It appears to me that having an Amiga One is no different than having a computer running Linux.  What I don't understand is that if Amiga is such a dead company with little to no software is being made, exactly why would one want with an Amiga one?  Over all I am saying, what is the big attraction to the Amiga One.  What is it primaryily used for?  Why would sombody pay $1,500 for for one of these computers?

The sort of people that bought A1's and Peg's were those that felt PowerPC represented the future direction of the platform, wanted support for commodity PC hardware etc.

Contrary to what some think, most OS friendly m68k software for the classic machines runs fine under OS4 on the A1 or MOS on the Peg. It also runs a hell of a lot faster, too.

[Karlos]

Does anybody know the differences between the Sam440 and the Amiga ONe.?  What are the differences and which one is better?  Also, can These two computers run windows based software at all?  Is there some kind of emulator that allows you to run windows software?  Also, do various compainies make software for the Amiga OS4 platform such as "word processing software", internet browsers, games, utilities, etc?  Thanks.

Barney

Neither run windows based software and if they did it would be under some form of x86 emulation that would be far slower than the cheapest new PC you could find.

The Sam440 uses a System on a Chip implementation of the PowerPC which reduces the need for external components. The AmigaOne uses either a G3 or G4 PowerPC.