From: | Gary Peake |
Date: | 5 Jun 2001 at 19:36:35 |
Subject: | Re: cost of amigaone ? |
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 09:48:48 -0000, emptystate@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>--- In amigactive@y..., Gary Peake <gary@a...> wrote:
>
>> There is no price set yet and it would be foolish to begin all the
>> what if here that will be taken as gospel once it gets away from
>> this mailing list.
>
>Obviously Eyetech's timeframe has slipped (see
>http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/timeframe.php),
>no company would set pricing until they're in production.
I believe Martin Schuler had to take finals or something. But the board is
still scheduled for late summer.
>Until we actually see one powered up and running something Amiga-ish
>it'll stay in the realms of Boxer-ology. (How many times have we
>seen that motherboard at shows and in magazines ?)
Since Alan announced it? He has been at all the shows since the first board
was put together. But, unlike other projects in the Amiga world, the
AmigaOne hasn't been "on the drawing board" for 5 years.
>I wouldn't hold my breath either because even when it is available,
>how much software will actually work on it ? Probably a lot less
>than on my PPC card.
Hopefully our third party developer group will remedy that issue before it
becomes one, IF they see people willing to buy the AmigaOne instead of
slagging it off.
>More support is planned when OS 4.2 comes out (what is 4.1 ?)
>but seeing as no one is actually working on OS 4.2 yet we will
>have to guess our own timelines. (Or is AI going to start giving us
>regular Executive Updates again ?)
How do you know what is or isn't being worked on? Please tell us your
inside source for this information. You are posting facts right? :)
>hmmmmmmmmmmm...
That is what I say every time I see a post from someone anonymous who
claims to have inside information. :)
Gary Peake
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