[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 fleecy on 22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 86 (Andy H): Transmeta started work a few years ago and began courting
hardware companies about a year later. We have been in business
less than a year.
The Amiga community also needs to get some sort of perspective. We
are continuously inundated with screams that we should be revealing all our plans and all our partners to Joe, who owns a chipshop, or dave who is a student, or michael, who offers PC support for a living. This isn't how the business world operates. There are big companies who make computers with big ties to another company that provides them with an OS. They get a sweet deal because they only use that OS. It is 90% or more of their business. They would like to have another OS. Sure, let's announce it now, so that they lose their sweet deal and go down the pan, and their new Amiga product goes down the pain because Amigans don't like x86, or the colour purple, or the fact that Amiga 1000 utilities won't run on it.
Why have we been able to announce STBs first? It is because there isn't a
dominating product there so companies are free to chose.
If you don't believe us or aren't happy, go somewhere else. That is your choice. We and the remaining Amiga companies are doing our best. Product announcements and releases should be a joyous occasion but in the present community they are a time for dread. The community really has to get over the fact that Commodore went bankrupt x years ago and screwed the platform.
Blaming us is pointless.
All I have heard is complaints about an average PC spec.
Fact. There is no PC with the spec of the product announced.
Fact. That is a minimum spec, so a company can put a 1.1ghz Athlon in,
512mb ram, a 30 Gig HD and whatever else they want.
The Amiga community has been damaging itself from the inside for so long now
it seems to know of no other way to behave. If ppl really are that unhappy,
go to another platform, and leave us who are trying so that we can bring it
back to life. Don't be another boot on the coffin lid as we try to raise it
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