Elbox news?

[LoadWB]

monami wrote:
jokes are even unfunnier if they aren't understood. or kept as in joke. is this an official statement from the company then? i'd like to read it! otherwise it sounds like trolling. :evil:

You want the official word, then go to the real website, copy and paste their words to a post and include a citation.

Otherwise what you read on the Internet is just conjecture, or trolling.  ESPECIALLY around here :-P

[AMC258]

If Amiga users can't by now get a good laugh from broken promises then we are in serious trouble. :crazy:

[monami]

i take your point. but what happens if they do come up with product?

[B00tDisk]

I am entirely sure at this point if anyone did get a response from them it would be along the lines of "Well, we're waiting for the legal issues to sort themselves out" which, as we all know, won't happen soon if at all (AInc sues Hyperion, Friedens sue Hyperion to get ExecSG so even if AInc wins, they still have to fight the Friedens to GET the OS).

If it did or does, I'm also entirely sure they simply won't release it, period.

Also, someone mentioning these being rebaged sonnet boards?  Yeah.  I can see El "Delete your RDB" Box pulling that crap.

[Tripitaka]

monami wrote:
i take your point. but what happens if they do come up with product?

I'll cry for joy. Then I'll cry for lack of cash.......then I'll become a drug dealer to make the cash and buy the damn products at last only to end up inside with a 16 stone..... OMG....perish the thought, see what trouble actually releasing a product for Amiga could do? best we all just keep talking about it instead.  :lol:

[Piru]

Also, someone mentioning these being rebaged sonnet boards?

Mind the (bad) perspective correction.

[AMC258]

Now if they were smart, they'd make the 'cooler' cover up the whole board and say "WARNING DO NOT REMOVE COOLER.. EVER!"

[monami]

then why hasn't someone put one in their mediator then?

[AMC258]

Because it would just be an expensive space heater.

[Piru]

then why hasn't someone put one in their mediator then?

Because unlike what Elbox wants everyone to believe it doesn't magically run unmodified OS4.

[monami]

what does that mean exactly?

[Zac67]

Well,

Sonnet Crescendo 7200 (G3/500): $39.95
Elbox SharkPPC: $452.95
getting ripped off by Elbox: invaluable
:roll:

[monami]

why don't you install one then?

[odin]

There is no software to make OS4 run on it. You'd have to program it/hack OS4 yourself.

[monami]

ahhh! exactly. so i see these lol elbox comments everywhere... yet they provide drivers/ bios/ investment in buying a whole bunch of boards as well as negotiating with the company. and then support.

also when their prices went up on the net i suspect they would have cost a small fortune. i wanted one of these for my mac and they were hundreds of pounds. yes they may be £20 now. but not when the prices where originally quoted. i assume a price would be reasonably dropped to match. :-)

[Trev]

It's not that Elbox rebrands and upsells commodity hardware--that's just good capitalism (*cough* profiteering *cough*). The problem is that representatives of Elbox use words like "revenge" and that Elbox's software is just as likely (perhaps more so) to whack your file system as it is to function as advertised.