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Why isn't a SAM officially the AmigaOne X500 for instance?

SAM is good brand of its own for the targeted market. Some people of ACube even contacted Bil lMcEwen about possible A400 name, but at that time A.Inc vs. Hyperion lawsuit appeared.

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iPad is a 1GHz machine. Sam460 is tiny, I've seen it. A bit of development cash, Simon Archer's touchscreen drivers, a new UI for the AmigaOS and a case, and you're away.

Aaaanyway, isn't your 'Commodore Amigo' a 1GHz machine?

And as for 'AmigaOne X500', no I don't think its a great idea. 'AmigaOne' is a bad idea from my point of view, because it will be too easy for the enthusiast customer to confuse the X1000 with either your products, or worse, the Eyetech A1s with all their 'interesting' hardware quirks.


My advice to A-Eon is to ditch the AmigaOne brand. Go with any female name. If the money men have got 'Lorraine', then 'Louise' will do. Whoever. I'd buy a 'Gwendolene X1000', frankly, if the specs were right and it ran the Amiga OS.

Oh, and you can call the Amiga OS 'Geoff' if you like and I wouldn't care. As I said, its the attitudes and 'philosophy' behind the OS4 project, the X1000 effort and ACube that have drawn me in.

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do you really think we're going to sell 1Ghz or even sub Ghz machines to the masses today?

If you use XCore86 in your Amigo computer, then it is even slower than SAM...

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.....pop corns getting low now.

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And for that matter, on the subject of trademarks, how come Hyperion or A-Eon aren't granting ACube the AmigaOne name?

Can you point me to a link or similar where (1)Acube expresses the desire to carry the AmigaOne name and/or (2)Where Hyperion states they are denying the name AmigaOne to Acube?

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