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Re: Here's the first specs for the new Amiga from Amiga Inc.
« Reply #134 from previous page: May 05, 2007, 06:38:25 PM »
Seems a lot of Amiga users are accustomed to apologising for out-of-date hardware. The original Amiga blew the PCs of the time out of the water. The argument's always the same; AmigaOS is lean, you don't need all that extra speed.

But why limit yourself? As though AmigaOS is so lean that it takes anti-cycles to run, it wouldn't benefit at all and there are no applications in the emerging high-def world to take advantage of it?!

We're talking about a gigabyte of RAM as a maximum. You don't have to use it, but that's the most you'll ever be able to use with that board, period. And that's crap, by today's standards.

SATA - okay, but at least parallel ATA is still supported unlike the graphics slot which is two generations out of date, talking genuine back-to-back supersession.

Whoever said PPC @ 600MHz would beat a P4 @ 4GHz, well... Brand loyalty is doing a lot for you and Amigans in general, isn't it?! :-x

Two serial ports... Why?

Two gigabit ethernet ports. Erm. Did someone get a {bleep}load of I/O ICs on the cheap? I guess gigabit is nice. Perhaps this will be handy for downloading all the video you can't play.

Basically, you can shout naysayer, but with question marks over the delivery of the OS you can't blame buyers for wanting to be sure they can run an alternative OS on it at reasonable speed before investing.
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Re: Here's the first specs for the new Amiga from Amiga Inc.
« Reply #135 on: May 05, 2007, 06:42:29 PM »
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well that and the fact that there is still to this day no decent web browser.  There where many things that prevneted the the amiga form becoming a mainstream hit "computer".


Commodore was fecked long before the web was a concern.
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Re: Here's the first specs for the new Amiga from Amiga Inc.
« Reply #136 on: May 05, 2007, 06:50:42 PM »

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The biggest shortcoming of the classic Amiga was the inability to read/write HighDensity floppies, which are standard in the PC world. Another one was not supporting IDE harddisks early enough. Third one too late support for VGA-monitors. These three reasons were propably the most significant ones that stopped Amiga becoming the world leader in computers today.


I remember reading an interview from a Sierra-onLine executive back in the day where he said that when hard drives become standard for all new amigas they would restart production of game ports... but C= management was still asleep....
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