| [News] Amiga2k show analysis | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Apr-2000 19:33 GMT by Christian Kemp | 19 comments
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Corinna Cohn went to the Amiga2k and posted
an extensive analysis on Moo Bunny.
She describes the show itself, provides a rundown of the products on display,
talks about Bill's speech and what she later talked with Bill and Fleecy.
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part 1,
part 2 and
part 3
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| Amiga2k show analysis : Comment 19 of 19 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Kevin Orme on 04-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Mike):
I also went to this show, and while I'm not the experienced Amiga user Corinna is (anyone seen her demonstrate ImageFX? You'll know what I mean) I can appreciate hers and others' skepticism.
I guess the best thing about this show in my opinion is that *finally* the Amiga is in the hands of Amigans, and if this is our last stand, we have no one left to blame but ourselves if it fails. I think it is a credit to Bill M. and Fleecy that they are willing to put their professional 'lives on the line' as it were for the Amiga. Sure, they'd find other jobs if it fails, but they are, togther with Randy Hughes, pretty much putting it on the line for the Amiga, this from Bill who's only used one for the past year or two, that says something about his belief in the computer.
But, as Corinna correctly points out, the proof is in the pudding. I just like the notion that we can't blame anyone else now for our situation. In talking quite extensively with Gary Peake, and noting that Amiga Inc. *have* hired several noted Amiga luminaries (Dean K. Brown, etc.), we are truly in charge. Even if you have issues with Fleecy, Bill or others, that doesn't mean we can't work together for a common goal, the revival of the Amiga.
And the hardware independence question. As my friend pointed out throughout the show (to Gary Peake, Fleecy and others), we shouldn't care really what hardware is underlying the new Amiga, as long as its execution is still an Amiga. If Motorola is not given sufficient market incentive to keep up with Intel and AMD (partially due to the fact that Motorola builds a lot more stuff than simply chips, unlike the other two and thus doesn't always focus on the business to the degree it *should* - this applies to IBM for slightly different reasons, too) they won't make the effort to 'keep up' with Intel and AMD and thus PowerPC performance will suffer. While there is no reason to believe this at present, as he pointed out, every next generation of faster chips requires completely new fab plants, and unlike Motorola or IBM, Intel and AMD have no choice but to build them - chips are their only business. Thus why not take advantage of the better hardware if Intel makes it? There won't be any Microsoft bloat to screw it up, and won't we run that much faster as a result? Everyone's seen a souped up game on a souped up PC - think about what an AmigaOS could do with the same hardware! And for less money, etc.
Kevin Orme
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