Anyone noticed Commodore USA's "Amiga" mockup?

[klx300r]

gotta agree with Piru here..that's pretty shoddy :-(...I hope they at least give Marko credit for his design

[amigakid]

hmmnnn looks supicious to me.  Funny the "new" computer, then the following post with link to original picture.  Must be another small scale "hopefuls" operation like when Amiga inc had that one person "company" supposedly making the new amiga's.  WHY CANT WE GET A COMPANY THAT IS ACTUALLY GOT MONEY, POTENTIAL AND BRAINS?  If Apple can rise up then it wouldn't impossible (although very far fetched) for a company to resurrect Amiga in some small form, but for peets sakes I'd rather have nothing than these fake ass companies like this and Amiga inc.

[amigakid]

LOL anyone see where they tried to remove the mouse cable to make it look wireless.  Man they at least could have taken a few more minutes and done a better job.

[tone007]

I'm surprised they didn't try to turn the CRT into an LCD with some bad Photoshopping.  Oh, wait, they probably don't know CRT's aren't hip, hot technology anymore.

[wawrzon]

ah, so this is the way they do it??!! i havnt got a wireless mouse yet, but if this is as easy im going to make one in a minute, just let me find my pair of scissors .

oh and i have a spare crt somehwere here, there must be a way to turn it into a modern flatscreen. lemme think...

[Iggy]

Isn't this where one of the old school die hards pokes fun at Hyperion for its continued use of the Amiga name?

[A6000]

Twenty years ago, the old commodore company were putting Amigas into PC style boxes, now the new commodore company is putting PCs into Amiga style boxes.

Maybe they are caught in some sort of weird temporal distortion field?

[brownb2]

As someone who's been outside the Amiga bubble for 13 or so years it seems to me that the future lies mainly in game systems like the C64 joystick type devices, the Minimig (for classic computer use low power profile computing) and the upcoming X1000, and possibly... possibly AROS once its software and driver base expands - it's competing IMHO with the likes of Linux and Ubuntu in particular however. This  is me just being subjective - obviously you're entitled to your own view

I don't think companies like this will be more than a flash in the pan and they probably detract from larger annoucements as "yeah just more vapourware or niche machinery". Certainly alienating the core fan base isn't going to help you as a company or with publicity when the reason you've licensed the trademark is to bring those and Commodore fans on board.

[redfox]

See AMIGA-fantasyB.jpg from 1999 on Aminet for the original picture.
This is the AMIGA fantasy created by Marko Hirv.
I have always liked these pictures.  I think this would have been a cool design.

But this is not the right way to do it, unless the original creator has given his permission.

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redfox