Regarding the naming of new A-eon systems

[vox]

Indeed, the discussion starts at 18m55s.



Had they called it "PS3" you can bet your left hand that some PS3 enthusiasts would have been upset, because it's not a Playstation 3 (and Sony would come after them of course, since this is an unregistered trademark they use, but that's not my point). Or if a new car manufacturer that's going to produce a brand new car model would market it under an abandoned (but well known) model name from another, dead, manufacturer, despite the model has nothing at all to do with that old one, then you can bet your right hand that there will be an angry bunch of veteran car enthusiasts who are devoted to that *real* model, since it has nothing to do with the cars they are interested in, and it only causes confusion. Or if the MorphOS team would rename their OS to "AOS 5" ("AOS" not meaning *anything* here of course, especially not anything close to "Amiga"), you don't think people would be upset?
So cut down on the insults, don't play stupid and and don't tell me you can't see the controversy here. Maybe you don't care, but I can assure you I'm not the only one who does.

+1 on everything and all you wrote!

It's a de-facto naming convention; *all* real Amiga models can be shortened with an "A"+model number. Everyone does this, all the time, and everyone understands.

:pissed:

Me and THM on agreement? Well, I disliked that policy with C=USA so I play fair and vote for NAME AND NUMBERS RESERVATIONS AND NOT MARKETING,

Its next line to AmigaOne x1000

Logically should be AmigaOne x2000 or 2020/2040
or X2000 and X4000

[vox]

@ grandma

I hope the MorphOS team could find a deal with A-Eon to use these new boards for new MorphOS system! especially as A-Eon has stated they will be selling single boards now.

It'll be cool to see the different case designs with the Blue butterfly:drink:

I hope they will finally do X1000 port, once those G5 Macs go out of market :-) Yes, it is slower then G5, but nice enough for MOS

[vox]

Yes but spending 1.2 Million Dollar for new PPC based custom hardware in 2013/2014 IS indeed wasting money. It is also called hobby like collecting and repairing oldtimers, collecting stamps or whatever. But he should at least not try to confuse his new toys with the classic line.

And he could have spend it in porting AmigaOS to better and cheaper hardware. "Custom hardware" that offers no real benefits compared to standard hardware makes no real sense.

IBM is investing in Linux PPC side, so lets see how Cyrus will do. After all, there are no other consumer PPC boards.

Yes, I would like to see fraction of that money is spent of software AmigaOS side, but again, it might happen slower via AmigaOS 4 licenses.

[vox]

"Further more, do you think there are more people buying the beast, if a search engine will present Cyrus base System when you enter Amiga 5000?"
   Hint: The only ones that will be interested to even google "Amiga 5000" in 2013 would be the hard core Amiga guys in a certain microcosm.

Well, in a way it is enhanced X1000, so X2000 is no confusion thing.
Why not using your voice and voting to AEON?

Amiga 5000 is listed at Amiga History
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/a5000mag.html

even the power edition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_A5000

[vox]

How frustrating it must be for OS4 haters to see new HW coming using the name they cant. I dont see other reason for so much fuss about naming of a machine. Who cares, if you like it and have the money buy it, if not, forget it. Like some1 is going to listen to you anyway...

Well, Djole, Classic lovers have a new sound card, so its hard to spit on AEON :hammer:
Well, I cant afford Cyrus now, but will come back to see how it does in 5 years.

Meanwhile, are you interested to team up in localizing parts of AmigaOS and apps? Translation is not bad at all, but nights some ironing, and surely we can do apps which are both OS 3.x and OS 4.x (like YAM for example)