The Amiga One

[Vidi]

Anyone seen this yet, my brother has a beta version and it rocks, it's faster than windows, doesnt crash as much, no viruses or worms ... yet, and its inviting you to write software for it.  I think there paying you to port software over to it like wordsworth or ppaint.  the speed is brilliant, it took about 10 - 45 secons to boot and when rebooting 10 - 15 seconds.  It comes with alot of emulators, such as the A1200, and has a nice desktop, that has a bar at the botom like linux.  anyway is anyone thinking of buying one?  I would love one!  :)

This is the link to the OS4 site:

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

  - vidi  :)

[erjin999]

Hmm, as a former owner of an Amiga, and someone who loved his Amiga a lot, I would be very interested in any new Amiga. It would have to be able to handle interaction with my Wintel machines (Winamd actually !).

If it can sit on the home network and interact to the level say linux can, then yeah, it might be worth my checking out.

I will search Google for it now, but put up a link if you can...

[gryphon]

you know, I have a Ti calculator which boots in just onder 1 second and as far as I am aware of it has 0 (read zero) worms or viri written for it. And although it doesn't ever crash like Windows does I am not even thinking of replacing my laptop for it.

[SpiceGuid]

The problem when buying a modern amiga is nostalgia should be your sole motivation, otherwise you will be disappointed by:

* limited hardware support (forget webcams and even printers)

* crappy web browsers (think Mosaic-age)

* very few and pricy commercial softwares

* many amateurish buggy softwares

* poor compatibility with your beloved oldies (forget DeluxePaint4 and others)

* you still need a PC for many tasks

* outdated CPU, usually a G4 @ 1Ghz

* limited quantities means a high price/performance ratio

Of course there are positive things:

* something new, compact, friendly, reactive

* silence, the G4 has very little power consumption and can be fan-less

* you can do most basic operations, read PDFs, MP3s, DVDs

* it's an ideal programmer-platform mainly because little native software exists, so anything you do is a contribution

My opinion: buy one only if you know what you buy.

[erjin999]

I would only buy it for its nostalgia. If there were a new Atari, I wouldnt think twice about it.