Amiga Inc and Ack Release Design Specs

[guru-666]

@Glittering
come on I've explained this to you before... don't jump to conclusions... you don;t have the facts.... the trial has not even started...
Here in the U.S.A you have to hear both sides of the story, the ask questions and let the jury decide!
@drewz21
actauly Sombody else started the telling me the price of vista and I was pointing out that THEY are not the same thing.
it's cool.  If this hardware does get out there you are free to buy it.  For me it stoped being an amiga a long time a ago. What I see has nothing to do with amiga it has to do with people using the amiga name to make a quick buck...  Amiga died with commodore and it should have been open sources a long time ago....
BTW compiling your own software can be frustrating but it's VERY rewarding!  I know how well windows works... it's o.k.
:cheers:

[sknight]

@Akiko

You get the feeling your on the wrong site  :roll:

No, I'm not... That was only an example (a good one by the way).
If Amiga Inc wants to succeed and be taken seriously by people they must change their attitude/business. Amiga OS was a great OS but it's outdated. Even OS4 is.
Let's be realistic. How many new Amigas do you think they will sell? 100k maximum? That's not even enough to attract serious developers to the new platform.
I am an Amiga fan (I still have some Amigas here - 5 in total) but those new Amigas have nothing to do with Amiga's original spirit... Amiga now is just a (good) hobby. Accept it!

[Magic-Merl]

Amiga Inc has the community divided I think?

Put it into perspective.  OS4 on a machine like this will run very well indeed.  How much will OS4 cost again? and where can I buy it?

[Tripitaka]

I feel there is a need to point out that this isn't the Wintel biege box market, those comparisons just don't work in a market place this small.
That's not to say I'm jumping for joy, I would have liked to see AGP in the spec and what OS does this machine run?

[Vlabguy1]

Any pricing or case designs..??

[XDelusion]

Ya...

Well if they give us a 600 some Mhz CPU, then it would be worth while, though with Amiga's new law suit, I'm wondering if I should not just focus on MorphOS or AROS, should AROS ever become useable.

[Akiko]

@Sknight

"How many new Amigas do you think they will sell? 100k maximum?"

Not even by a long shot

Amiga now is just a (good) hobby. Accept it!

I well accept it! Hobbies are expensive and that's exactly what this OS and hardware is! It's absolutely crazy to expect comparable performance and pricing to that of a main stream company like Apple. If anyones expecting similar hardware from Ainc then they are clearly living in the clouds!  If shocked by pricing I'd suggest finding a cheaper hobby! The rest can enjoy this niche hobby.

[guru-666]

then they should just release the dang OS for all PPC platforms and be done with it.
We don;t expect pidly companies like a-inc or hyperion to come up with well priced hardware... they just can't do it.

 OR better yet relese the thing to the open source, then it could be a real hobby platform that the community could update with out having to deal with scumy criminals like hyperion and a-inc. Heck I would even be willing to pay that Mr. McEwen dude $25,000 to get lost.

[maffoo]

400MHz? They do know it's 2007 don't they?

I was interested until I read the specs, 1GHz is the bare minimum I would pay that price for (and even then it would be overpriced, I could probably pick up a similarly-specced PowerMac for far less!)

[Akiko]

@guru-666

then they should just release the dang OS for all PPC platforms and be done with it.

Doesn't mean there isn't a small market and some profit margin. Of course what really excites Ainc about OS4 is the potential for embedded use to more lucrative industrial clients.

[guru-666]

@Akiko
ahhh LOL, they are so not in that game! LOL
in there dreams!
No there is no lucrative amiga market. that notion has been a dream since 1995!
thats the whole point, why waist people money and time on this garbage.  Why spend tax money in court, frankly these a-inc guys are causing a nusance.  A-inc is just dreaing that they can make lots of moeny of this... it's a sad pathetic joke at he cost of this community.   Francly we are the ones that should be sueing a-inc for creating a nucance with all the press releases, 20 questions and other legal garbage tehy are have been putting out.

[Akiko]

@guru-666  

ahhh LOL, they are so not in that game! LOL
in there dreams!

They aren't the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies neither, but that dosn't seem to stop them thinking so!  :lol:

[guru-666]

BTW, Not that I can even spell or anything....but you think they might want to proof read the copy they put up today....

“Amiga is please to be working with ACK Controls .... said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc.
 :oops:

[viviancer]

First i loved Amiga because it was so different from  any other computers, and now with this form it is gonna look like my shety PC! Can we get at least decent shell like it was on all Amigas like 1200, 600, 500??? probably not! I want that Amiga Inc is no more, f*** them, better sell everything to Microsoft and go to hell.I want that this agony comes to end. No more Amiga and point!
 :madashell:  :pissed:  :madashell:

[B00tDisk]

First i loved Amiga because it was so different from any other computers, and now with this form it is gonna look like my shety PC! Can we get at least decent shell like it was on all Amigas like 1200, 600, 500???

Yeah, design and sell little desktop wedges that you almost immediately have to rip out of their cases and stick into towers and hang ugly, flakey 3rd party widgets off of to get any decent functionality.  There's a marketing idea for you.  :lol:

[Waccoon]

Wait, wait...  let me get this straight...

This is a really slow CPU, and they're using DDR2 memory?  DDR2 memory, and they're using a PCI slot for graphics?

Are they F'n stupid?  This is a horrific mis-match of hardware.  I guess when you're hell-bent on using PPC at any cost (because, like, the CPU is the only thing that matters), then you have to make some severe compromises.

And all this time, I though Amiga's flagship product was supposed to run on any CPU.  Such horrible treachery to shackle people to such a Frankensteinian monster because they can't find a simple way to add a hardware key to an off-the-shelf x86 micro-ATX board.