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i want one of those fancy new macbook pros.. a black one...

I hear the black ones have bigger hard drives.

and they run faster, too.

kb_: and they have sample support


*g*

$500 isn't a bad price, I wonder what the specs are.

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)

The specs are huge!

Wii... glasses... A Wii with amigaOS would be great, and probably better than that "new" amiga.

xernobyl, for you, a Wii with any OS would be better than anything in the world. even better than a puppy riding a bicycle.

What!?! What could be better than a puppy riding a bicycle?!?! NOTHING I TELL YA! NOTHING!

Or maybe a cat riding a moped..

ps:

Needs! A! NIPPLE! Apple just can't get it through their thick little skulls. Grr! The anger consumes me.

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

At the moment $489 = €358.40. I think it's cool for that price... VAT sucks.

no it isn't. I would prefer... money.

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:


Perhaps it gets an amiga ball heatsink to boot!

Why did they tape a Bat'leth to that motherboard?

another amiga clone:

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 :)

havoc: is that one based on the XScale cpu?

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?

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.

A-TA-RI!!!!! Although I get the impression that was an evil joke...

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. ;)