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Mini-ITX AmigaONE Board
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)."
I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MAC'S
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend with a titanum powerbook put an 802.11 card in, she bought an apple Airport one. The first amazing thing comes when it doesn't fit in the slot, but a quick call to the apple seller and they tell me it has to go INSIDE THE MACHINE. My friend had opted not to get them to install it as it was an extra $20 fee, so she took it home and I got the job as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy of design as the TiBook!
First I had to take the entire thing apart. This if youve been inside a laptop is not an easy trivial task. It needs the batteryu and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them mean I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again. Now I know computers are throwaway things nowadays but that's rediculous? We also had to use snips to cut some tiny pieces of shielding off to get to the right screws. I can see why they were charging so much to put the card in, she should have gone with that option! In the end finally I was able to lever up a part of the inside to push the airport card inside and click it in place. But that wasn't enough, an aerial cable then needed to be connected, and getting it out of its holder was another half hour of work where I had to pull the airport card out again!. Finally with it all back together it works. The inside I think is back where it should go. the back doesn't go back on how it should either and I think is a little bent.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too!. Why they couldn't put it in an easily accessed slot like normal PC notebooks I dont know. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of her mac addiction, she will definately be buying a Dell next
Have you ever seen an Amiga motherboard naked? Did it turn you on? Did you ask yourself, "That is a sexy motherboard, I would like to have sex with it?" Did you have sex with the motherboard? Did you chafe yourself while doing so? Did the man in the bunny suit sitting in the corner laugh at you for it? Did you shoot him in the face for doing so? Did you miss? Did the man in the bunny suit turn into Keira Knightley naked before you? Did you want to do her? Did you do her? Was she tight and wet? Did the Amiga get jealous? Did she look into your eyes with
Admit it people... the Amiga is dead... let it go!
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I really don't understand why these amiga stories keep coming up from time to time. No matter how good the original was the platform is hopelessly antiquated, and any new product will surely be a nearly complete redesign. It makes no sense to attach all that work to a quaint rebrand.
Amiga es la vieja mujer. Step into an ice creamy futuro con pene nuevo!
That's teh kind of storie faggs lyk u like.
Okay, so now there is an alpha-test demo of AmigaOS4 making the rounds. . . . Meanwhile, I've been getting things done on my Macs for the last five years, and I have Mac OS X and all the goodies that go with it. Tell me again why I should have waited for a new Amiga?
Nobody.