PPC Amigas Go On Sale

nastyphil writes "After a wait of almost 10 years and passing through a series of owners' hands, new Amiga hardware is on sale. G4 processors at up to 800 Mhz. Development of AmigaOS 4.0 has been continuing at a steady pace by Hyperion and will be ready for release early 2003."

Comments

Wow, great!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

800 MHz processors! Who would have thought!!! Now I can catch up to all of my Intel-using friends from 2 years ago!

Seriously, who is going to use this?

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

The only possible purpose of bringing the Amiga back from the dead is NOSTALGIA.

The Amiga simply has no other practical uses -- not for games, not for desktop accessories: nada, nil, nothing. At the best, some rich geeks are going to purchase one as a novelty item, run some old demos or ancient games on it, and then let it collect dust in their closet.

Amiga emulators do the job far better than an actual machine would, with the bonus of being absolutely free.

Amiga died long ago, and it will never make a comeback. You would have to be a diehard idiot to purchase one of these.

Re:Seriously, who is going to use this?

[redcliffe]

No, you run Linux PPC on it. Then it is exactly the same as your PC, except faster for certain math operations.

Re:Several Amigas

[BluBrick]

FYI: This is the official PPC Amiga (AmigaOne) backed up by Amiga Inc....

and exactly who is that... this week?

"The Amiga" VS "The Dark Side"

[vortexau]

Well, I can see why this news is no use to you because you have gone over to the Dark Side.
This News is for people such as me and for those willing to seek a way outside Micro4oft's (cursed be their name) version.

Quote"Dells journey to the dark side is complete. You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Help me amiga-wan, your my only hope.

www.teotwin.com (teotwin)"

In addition, (like in Macs) there is no Palladium.
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