| From: | Steve Hodson |
| Date: | 21 Oct 2000 at 21:44:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
"Anthony W. Prime" wrote:
> Hi Andy
>
> [snip]
>
> > All seems fairly disappointing to me. Had enough stuff hacked onto
> > "classic" Amigas already, and is a PPC AmigaOne going to be that
> > impressive?
>
> > Thoughts anyone?
>
> I`m probably about to upset Alan, which I really don`t want to do, but here
> goes.
>
> Is this the promised land Bill has been selling to us? Yet another hack. I`m
> reminded of a dog of a car Victor Meldrew owned. In the end he asked to have
> a new car bolted to his exising wing mirror to cure all the faults, and that
> sounds about how the new transition AmigaOne is going to be.
>
> I can`t understand why some nice clean tidy boxes (either x86 or POP) could
> not be launched at the same time. This really smacks of Amiga making a
> hugely expensive and complex upgrade path available for the sake of it.
It builds on top of what *you already have* or should have ;)
> Given the choice between spending £6-700 further tinkering with the delecate
> ecosystem that is my A1200 or buying a new set of standard components nicely
> assembled and packaged the choice seems obvious.
>
> But it`s all academic as I`m not being offered that choice am I?
This provides what many bitched about for a long time...something to take them
from the `real Amiga` (tm) to the `new Amiga` but can still utilise their
current hardware..for those people that invested in their Amiga dream, this is
the answer they`ve been searching....meanwhile a lot of people changed their
minds it seems?
You are forgetting that this is *one* solution that meets the AmigaONE criteria
not the *only* solution..it`s just the first one.
Steve
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