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Amigakit announces a £2,000 Amiga desktop for Christmas
DISTRIBUTOR Amigakit has announced an Amiga desktop that it claims will be ready for Christmas.
Amigakit has revealed that its Amigaone X1000 system will finally be available for Amiga fanatics by Christmas. We say fanatics because Amigakit has slapped a £1,699 excluding VAT price tag onto the machine and expects punters to fork over extra for an AmigaOS4 license, shipping and handling. Even the options list looks depressing, offering items such as a "Boing Ball" keyboard and mouse, RAM, hard drive and optical drive upgrades.
Amigakit does include some hardware on the Amigaone X1000, such as a Nemo revision 2.1 motherboard fitted with a PA-Semi dual core PA6T-1682M, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 4650 graphics card. Coming in at about £2,000 including VAT, it isn't what you'd call competitive against PCs but the firm claims it is a special case.
In a statement, Amigakit claimed, "The AmigaOne X1000 is not like other computers. It is a culmination of efforts by real Amiga enthusiasts and developers to create powerful, modern desktop hardware for the Amiga Operating System." Given the price, we would like to congratulate Amigakit on making Apple's Mac Pro seem positively good value for money.
A Hyperion Entertainment spokesperson said AmigaOS is being prepared for a netbook machine, though no specific details were mentioned.
Amigakit claims the Amigaone X1000 will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, but it's hard to see where the explosive demand will come from. While Amiga has a rich history, given its price the X1000 is unlikely add much to that. µ
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It's obvious that there is a campaign by windows (and microsoft), intel and Apple users against "the competition", in this case AmigaOS4.2.... They _must_ be worried if they keep having to call out "Amiga is dead" from the rooftops, as the tactic of "say it enough times, and then it must be true" is being employed here.
When they're that desperate, makes you wonder....
Hello,
The biggest news in this article is that Hyperion Entertainment are launching an AmigaOS NetBook next year in the price range $300-$500. Sure the X1000 is expensive, but I have no doubt they will reach there target and at least balance the books. The X1000 has brought a positive change in the Amiga marketplace as developers rush to modernise the OS with now common-place features such as OpenG and Multi-core processors amongst so much more.
Take a look for yourselves: http://www.amigaos.net
FireFox for Amiga. Yup, there's a version especially for us Amiga users as well.
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Richard
Proud owner of the AmigaOne 500
A VOTE FOR THE THIRD PARTY IS A VOTE THROWN AWAY. YOU WANT TO HAVE A WORTHLESS OPINION? BE MY GUEST.
I owned several Amigas and they were great, _when_ they were relevant, but moved to the PC platform when I saw that it was no longer rational was becoming too expensive to continue using AmigaOS.
Yes the 68000 family CPUs were great, but it's history now, because the 80*86 got massive investment, so it is utterly pointless to kludge more pathetic and way overpriced PowerPC so-called AmigaOS machines now.
This latest grossly overprice junk is just sad Zombieware for an OS which should be allowed to Rest-in-peace.
If you want to use AmigaOS, run it on an Emulator on a powerful PC, it's way cheaper and faster!
Anyhow you can use a far more powerful PC version of Directory Opus on PCs than ever ran on AmigaOS machines!
I had an A500, A500, and A1200,... um, 20 years ago, which i used mainly for gaming (did all my work on an Atari back then).
Has any new software been written in that time, and will that be ridiculously over-priced too ?
A platform should know when it is dead.