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new amiga computers?

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i want one of those fancy new macbook pros.. a black one...
added on the 2007-04-27 01:37:42 by psenough psenough
I hear the black ones have bigger hard drives.
and they run faster, too.
added on the 2007-04-27 05:39:46 by kb_ kb_
kb_: and they have sample support


*g*
added on the 2007-04-27 05:41:11 by keops keops
$500 isn't a bad price, I wonder what the specs are.
added on the 2007-04-27 08:02:23 by Sverker Sverker
rasmus: actually if you read the liner notes of the LP you can realize that the guys who made this (Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti) actually later became known as Snap. (see Rhythm is a Dancer)
added on the 2007-04-27 11:32:48 by Gargaj Gargaj
The specs are huge!

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added on the 2007-04-27 13:03:15 by doomdoom doomdoom
Wii... glasses... A Wii with amigaOS would be great, and probably better than that "new" amiga.
added on the 2007-04-27 13:51:07 by xernobyl xernobyl
xernobyl, for you, a Wii with any OS would be better than anything in the world. even better than a puppy riding a bicycle.
added on the 2007-04-27 13:54:36 by jeenio jeenio
What!?! What could be better than a puppy riding a bicycle?!?! NOTHING I TELL YA! NOTHING!

Or maybe a cat riding a moped..
added on the 2007-04-27 14:14:40 by okkie okkie
ps:

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added on the 2007-04-27 14:25:58 by Shifter Shifter
Needs! A! NIPPLE! Apple just can't get it through their thick little skulls. Grr! The anger consumes me.
added on the 2007-04-27 16:07:39 by doomdoom doomdoom
And the specs for the low-end machine are:

* Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
* 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
* 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
* 2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion.
* 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
* 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
* 2 (two) serial ports.
* 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
* Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
* Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
* Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage)
* Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
* Standard ATX power supply connector.


http://www.amiga.com/news/?art=27
added on the 2007-04-30 23:57:38 by Zener Zener
At the moment $489 = €358.40. I think it's cool for that price... VAT sucks.
added on the 2007-05-01 00:29:07 by xernobyl xernobyl
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xernobyl, for you, a Wii with any OS would be better than anything in the world. even better than a puppy riding a bicycle.

no it isn't. I would prefer... money.
added on the 2007-05-01 01:07:46 by xernobyl xernobyl
After cursory internet detective work, it turns out you amiga diehards will have to deal with the fact that the low-end machine shares the CPU with this abortion:
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Perhaps it gets an amiga ball heatsink to boot!
added on the 2007-05-01 01:18:12 by Shifter Shifter
Why did they tape a Bat'leth to that motherboard?
added on the 2007-05-01 04:22:45 by crusader crusader
another amiga clone:
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added on the 2007-05-01 08:03:22 by havoc havoc
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Why did they tape a Bat'leth to that motherboard?

Because it makes your pings go down!

It's a pretty fucked up card. I like how their marketing spinners initially came up with the idea that having a *LARGE* buffer would get pings down :)
added on the 2007-05-01 10:57:30 by Shifter Shifter
havoc: is that one based on the XScale cpu?

added on the 2007-05-01 12:13:08 by earx earx
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/amigaos4.ars/1
A nice AmigaOS 4.0 review... but the real question is: DOES IT RUN STARSTRUCK OUT OF THE BOX?
added on the 2007-05-02 04:34:42 by xernobyl xernobyl
Wow, this is a wonderful time to be alive. We have new C= computers, and also new Amigas. Next thing we need is an iMac with an Atari sticker on it.
added on the 2007-05-02 08:53:19 by doomdoom doomdoom
A-TA-RI!!!!! Although I get the impression that was an evil joke...
added on the 2007-05-02 11:45:38 by forestcre forestcre
forestcre: Yeah, but aimed at the people who can't accept when a platform is finished. Amiga continues as an alternative platform for demos (the classic architecture), as long as the hardware lasts, and as an OS which might eventually become useful for the mainstream when enough apps and drivers are ported. There's no justification for transferring feelings and assumptions about the old Amiga hardware to this new hardware platform. They have nothing in common but the name, and the fact that (stupid, stupid, stupid decision) it's the only platform that runs AmigaOS 4. They could just as well have written OS4 to run on PCs or Macs and shipped it with an Amiga sticker. It's a complete rewrite anyway. And at least then the hardware would be cheap and readily available.

But you know all this. ;)
added on the 2007-05-02 12:16:45 by doomdoom doomdoom

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