Amiga Acknowledges T-shirts Shipping

[rayt]

May be a bit off topic, but I can't understand all the hype about the mac mini destroying the "amiga market".. It has been always like if you want to run amigaos, you have to pay more.. Before the mac mini there were enough cheaper alternatives too.. people could have bought an emac, or a cheap 2nd hand mac, or even a 3ghz x86 for less than the amigaone boards.. but the main reason for paying that much for old hardware ist not thats ppc, but that its running amigaos4.. nearly everybody has a pc/mac at home anyway, so they don't buy these boards because they (excluding) desperatly need it for "serious work" anyway..

However, its great that the tshirts are finally beeing sent out.. I feel much less cheated now and hope that mine arrives today..

[rayt]

@wayne/itix

Hmm I forgot to mention in my post that I haven't even thought about "new" users. I was just seeing recent amiga users as the only customer base for the AmigaOne/OS4. Because I can't imagine anyone with no "amiga experience" (apart from a very few rich people maybe) buys such an expensive board just to try out an exotic OS. They maybe install some toy OSs on their x86 box, but nobody would buy outdated hw/Os for so much money just because he read on websites that its different and had a glorious past in the 80s. The only other customers I could imagine other than us "amiga fanatics" may be ex users who had an amiga in the 90s.. I think a price of ~499Eur for the MicroA1 board plus OS4 could attract quite a lot of these users (regardless of the price of the mac).. But this price probably wouldn't be possible for Eyetech if they wish to survive :-(

[rayt]

Honestly I think Genesi had the best shot of making something happen, yet failed for reasons we won't get into.

They failed because they largely subsidised the pegasos boards and didn't make any money at all out of the "amiga business"..