[News] Amiga announces the AmigaOne | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Oct-2000 14:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 119 comments View flat View list |
Amiga have just released this press release about the AmigaOne hardware spec. Eyetech will build the first actual boxes, which are Classic Amiga/AmigaOne hybrids (both A1200 and A4000-based models will be available) and will be based on PPC. They are scheduled for a Q1 2001 release. First stand-alone AmigaOnes should ship in Q3 2001. Also, the development of the Classic AmigaOS will continue with v3.9 coming out before Christmas.
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Posted by Paul McCord on 21-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | I think that Fleecy is right. What can we work with other than "off the shelf" parts? I mean that I for one am fed up with spares and add-ons costing twice as much for my Amiga than my Girlfriend's PC, simply because I want to be different. The Mediator board goes some way to addressing this, and Amiga One will too.
Also. Fleecy is right to say "wait and see". Can you imagine if we were promised the world on a stick (Anyone remember the Ford Edsel?), only to discover that the end product is not so great after all.
We can only judge when we see the finished article. Mind you one thing about Fleecy's response that I am intrigued by was that the "A1200 is the add on to the Amiga One". Food for thought I guess. However, as Fleecy has pointed out, Amiga are no longer a hardware manufacturer, and the Amiga One proves this by being built by a third party. This means that the likes of Blittersoft, Elbox et al could jump on the bandwagon with competing products that hopefully offer more and drive prices down. Meanwhile Amiga can leave the work of building the hardware to others. Remember when Apple closed down Power Computing when thier Mac clones were judged to be superior? |
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