what the hell is an amiga one?

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The AmigaOne SE, AmigaOneXE and uA1 were all Teron reference boards re-branded by having a boing sticker slapped on it and the price marked up ~300%. After much disinformation by certain individuals and companies, much infighting occurred in the community for a long time over the reliability and performance of these boards.

History has proved these boards to be of very poor quality by most accounts. I personally would strongly recommend you avoid buying a 2nd hand board.

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Re-worded to sound less inflammatory.

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B00tDisk wrote:
Dude I have some Cyrix based packard bell P1 clones I'd like to show you...!  

 :-o

 :lol:

Oh yeah, Packard Bell was bad back then!! But really, I still think the AmigaOne takes the crown.

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@jorkany

That's funny but fairly accurate, in a trollish kind of way :lol:

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spirantho wrote:
I was wondering why some of the other Amiga sites are getting refugees from Amiga.org ... after posts like this one I can see why.

People are fleeing from freedom of speech? Think about this for a moment. Anyone is free to point out how great the AmigaOne is, as a few such as yourself have. Amigaworld.net also allows freedom of speech nowadays, last time I checked. There are a few extremely low traffic self proclaimed OS4 centric sites out there AFAIK, but I've been told they heavily censor free speech. Is that what you are promoting?

The reality is simply that Eyetech needed a PPC board, and MAI were the only ones making one cheap enough;

Genesi was making the Pegasos II for half the price, and there was at least one other company. The Pegasos II worked as avertised and carried a true warranty.

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I have an A1, and for "the worst consumer product of all time" and "total garbage," it actually works quite well. The bugs have a performance hit (e.g., memory access is slower than it should be), but Amiga OS4 works well on it and is fun to use.

I think you are confusing OS4 with AmigaOne. OS4 may work well and assist the hardware with workarounds, but that doesn't make the A1 any less buggy / unreliable. Even in your explaination you explain the problems.

Can you name a worse motherboard or other mass produced consumer product in recent history? I am curious.

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There's freedom of speech, and then there are people spewing out opinions as facts and generally deriding things other people like. Most of the "facts" here come from people who have never used an A1. Having to listen to negative BS is unappealing.

Many posting here with a negative opinion do have, or have owned an AmigaOne. Slash and Redfox are 2 examples. Others posting here have a technical backround. Now Jorkany is obviosuly bording on trolling, but afaik has not crossed the line into moderation teritory.

I don't think anyone called A1 buyers dumb, I almost bought one myself. I was an early pre-order customer of the AmigaOne SE, and only canceled my order after the 3rd delay and seeing on the preoder mailing list the few people who had already received their board get viciously blasted by Alan Redhouse.

I count my blessing I never bought that AmigaOne SE. It was 100% advertised as an "end user product" and "meets Amiga Inc quality assurance". Do you remember at the very end when Alan Redhouse announced that in fact every AmigaOne ever made, including uA1, was nothing more than a developer board? That pissed off even most of the biggest A1 fans.

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McVenco wrote:

Can you name a worse motherboard or other mass produced consumer product in recent history? I am curious.

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touche!! :roflmao:

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    I don't think anyone called A1 buyers dumb, I almost bought one myself.

Still, I always get that feeling when I read most of the comments here.

Ok, speaking for myself maybe I worded my post to harshly. It was off the cuff of what my gut feeling is, but I will go back and re-word a bit since it seems I offended a few people.