@takemehomegrandma

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I'm not sure who would want a Panda anyway?

It might have something to do with an MPC7448.

Ack hardware = Amiga inc Hardware

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Three days to go..

@jahc
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@takemehomegrandma -long post snipped-

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You ever thought of getting these novels published?

I like the way you think Jahc

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@takemehomegrandma

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takemehomegrandma wrote: Quote: jahc wrote: You know what would be really surpsing?... Eyetech! I'd say its either them, or a large well known company. That would be surprising in the sense that Eyetech has since long gone away, and they left with a few bitter comments that showed some disappointment towards the whole situation IMHO. On the other hand, Eyetech is the only one with a valid license (if they have the right to dub any kind of hardware as "AmigaOne", which they at least have done in the past (three different motherboards)), so in a sense, Eyetech would be the least of the surprising options. But I think maybe Alan Redhouse feels kind of burned by his earlier attempts to make money on this "market", so unless someone (maybe someone of the above mentioned) have made him a really attractive offer, I don't think Eyetech is a realistic guess...

But do Eyetech really still have their carte blanche no-questions-asked licence, considering their fraudulent behaviour and junk products? (I wouldn't at all be surprised if that is the case, though.)

Another thing to ponder: Even if Eyetech themselves no longer have their own licence, do they still have a say on who else is to be granted a licence?

Re. dubbing stuff "Amiga[Something-Or-Other]", that's apparently an additional separate licence, which Eyetech seem to have lost or declined some time before their marketing of the Teron Mini as "micro-A1" (sic). Only the Teron CX and PX were ever officially marketed as "AmigaOnes".

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What would be *really* surprising ...

... would be if AmigaOS would be allowed to be developed for, sold for and run on good and reasonably priced hardware on an open market.

Imagine a more sane situation where discussions like "Do you think [Hardware X] would be a suitable target?" would be the norm, instead of "Do you think [Irrelevant Basement Company X] will try to get a licence for [Overpriced Underperforming Hardware Y]?"

Pleeeeease, surprise me! ;)

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@ironfist

when did hi tell you?

@L8-X

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L8-X wrote: Hmmm I know one thing...it isn't Genesi....why? Simple...Bill B would be screaming it from the rooftops and posting like crazy on his blog!

How would anyone know it hasn't been screamed already? So far there hasn't been any lack of annoyingly vague hints coming from those rooftops... ;)

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@amitv
Ack wrote in the forum somewhere that there would be a announcement made as early as first week of january.

@Samurai_Crow

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According to Babelfish, there's something about an announcement the first week of January and the source may surprise some.

Commodore .

@dan.hutch

Genesi or Elbox if I was putting money on it - or maybe that's too obvious?

@Tomas

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Ack wrote in the forum somewhere that there would be a announcement made as early as first week of january.

and there is 3 and a half day left of that week... i guesst we will get some sort of excuse soon...

take your pick:

1. an atom bomb hit my product line
2. the albola virus ate my ainc contract
3. my goat ate my prototype
4. accidently my mother did thow away the whola product run, when she cleaned my room
5. i was abducted by aliens and they did take everything

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@d0c

Is this a multiple choice question?

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@Seehund

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Only the Teron CX and PX were ever officially marketed as "AmigaOnes".

Would you want to live in a world where it was required that every and any piece of hardware capable of running AmigaOS 4+ had to be referred to as "AmigaOne"? I very much hope that we have more of a variety of naming conventions. If we end up seeing the AmigaOne-SAM or AmigaOne-PVLT for sale in a couple months, I'm going to bash my head against the wall. I'd personally like to see the AmigaOne name left behind, and newer, fresher names or model numbers come out. If I made ahrdware, I would not want to call it "AmigaOne". I'd want people to distinguish it from Eyetech's products. And I don't think the XE or SE style suffixes are enough to do that well. PowerVixxen and Samantha are more obviously differentiated from Eyetech's AmigaOne line. MicroA1 lets you know there's reason to suspect there's something different about it compared to teh AmigaOne SE/XE boards, while the SE/XE boards have more in common with each other than with MicroA1.

I'm happy that my A4000T was not named Amiga 500-4T or Amiga 2000-AT. And I find Apple's tendency to keep giving their products the same name even when significant changes happen to be annoying and confusing. For some models you distinguish which version of that model you have based on the date of manufacture, when thre may be very different chipsets, clock speeds, etc. present in the different date ranges. I just don't like that. I have an iBook G4 14", but that says very little about what might be in it, and it even hard to tell which one I have when looking them up on the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_mini

Eeew.

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@billt

AFAIK, AmigaONE is an Eyetech trademark, as such it can only be used by them or if they agree to let others use it. Should be a statement or something about that on amiga.com IIRC

Amiga Samantha doesn't sound right either tho...

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@billt
Heh. the Mac Mini looks like a kids lunch box.

Wizz.

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just name it amiga 6000 or something...

@Tomas

Well, one of the PVs could be named A1290 or something as it is ment to be an expansion to the A1200 right ?

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by m3x in public channel irc on January 2, 2007:
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news from our side within 10 days

The above would refer to SAM and would come from the SAM hardware developers.

Any other announcements are speculation atm.

Heh! Please feel free to over analyze what "from our side" and "within" mean...

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@jahc

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jahc wrote: You know what would be really surpsing?... Eyetech! I'd say its either them, or a large well known company.

I hope it's not Eyetech.

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@number6

Well, the news item did state "parties" so there's no reason not to believe ACK and m3x will announce something this week or there abouts.

At any rate, it could just be "we're in prototype now" and not "on sale" so wait and see still applies IMHO.

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