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Mini-ITX AmigaONE Board

Posted by timothy on from the mini-itx-rocks dept.

bhtooefr writes "When I was checking Mini-ITX.com, I found this little gem, info on the AmigaONE Lite board that will be coming out. It's a Mini-ITX compliant motherboard, so you'll be able to throw an Amiga in a Cubid case. Pictures are here (first two - first is without CPU, second is with)."

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  1. again? by Lxy · · Score: 4, Funny

    First I'm told my C64 can be be modded for broadband.

    Then an Amiga runs at 900Mhz. /me dusts off his Apple ][

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  2. An Amiga with a Radeon and VIA chips? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Denise and Agnus are spinning in their silicon landfills.

  3. "This little gem"? by psyconaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, GEM was on the Atari ST ;-)

    -psy

  4. What is it with you Mac fanatics? by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Amiga fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an Amiga (a A500+ with 1Mb of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Amiga, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, AMosaic will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Cygnus Edit is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Amigas, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an Amiga that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Amiga's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 7.1 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Amiga is a superior machine.

    Amiga addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an Amiga over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

    [I've been waiting to post this for ages. Just kidding btw, I really, really, miss my A500+, with 6Mb of RAM and a 45Mb SCSI HD. :-(]

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