| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 21 Oct 2000 at 16:51:10 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
Hello Andy
On 21-Oct-00, you wrote:
> http://www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.shtml is a strange thing to read. The
> "zico" specification for the AmigaOne seems interesting. Why CD/DVD
> though? Shouldn't it be insisting on DVD these days? Why is a modem part
> of the specification?
It's market speak. CD/DVD just means a drive capable of using both, it's a
reassuring term (i.e. your 5000 CD collection isn't gonna be useless, and
your new DVD collection can expand..)
As for the modem, it's not like everyone has an ethernet port in their
living room, let alone the kind of connection required to connect to
the outside world at the speeds it allows.
> And Eyetech making a PPC based board to bolt on to existing 1200/4000s in
> 1Q01, with standalone machines coming 6 months later? Not quite so happy
> with that idea. Still, hopefully someone can manage something else quickly
> enough.
I think that was a stupid, stupid idea. It would be MUCH MUCH more
productive to get one of IBM's POP designs, and then pay Ralph Schmidt
to port MorphOS. The lack of AGA etc. is workaroundable: you'll still
have an Amiga Classic next to it ;)
> Oh, and some stuff about OS3.9/4.0.
Hmm..
> All seems fairly disappointing to me. Had enough stuff hacked onto
> "classic" Amigas already, and is a PPC AmigaOne going to be that
> impressive?
No more impressive than a similarly-specced PowerMac Cube.
Then again, I'd LOVE a Cube ;)
Thanks
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