On this Thanksgiving day I wanted to express some of the things myself and tek438 (my business partner) Jeff Yoder are very thankful for. First thank you to all you Amigains for keep Amiga alive for so long. If it were not for you I would have never found the Amiga again and started Amiga On The Lake. Thank you Jeff for the many things that I have learned over the many years we have been friends and for starting Amiga On The Lake with me. Also thanks to you all for the nice comments that you have given to me and tek438 in starting Amiga On The Lake. The words of encouragement you have given to us, we are truly grateful.

I am very proud to tell you all that Amiga On The Lake has so far sold more AmigaOneX5000s than all other resellers in the world combined, so far (to the best of our understanding). This is do in part to the fact that AmigaKit does not have them on there site as of yet. Rest assured that things will change when they do. As a reseller in North America it is nice to be helping out the Amiga folks that are trying to grow AmigaNG systems. Myself and my business partner do not take a paycheck from Amiga On The Lake. We both work for free. This is only one way we keep the prices down to a very low level. Our goal is to GROW Amiga, not to make money. The money made goes back into Amiga On The Lake. We have added new products and there are more to come in the next two days and more again at the end of next week. We are doing very well with sales so far. I take personal pride in the fact that 40% of all X5000 systems sold are to people that have NEVER used AmigaOS4 before ever. That is American know how at work. I will keep you informed of some new things we are doing in the coming days. A big thank you to Matthew at AmigaKit he has been a great pleasure to work with and a true Amiga lover. Matthew is hard at work on all things Amiga (like all the time, day and night). I do not think that Matthew gets the great amount of credit he deserves. With out Matthew there would be no Amiga On The Lake. I want to remind you all that I always recommend AmigaKit to everyone that is looking for classic Amiga gear as we are focused on the new AmigaOne line of computers. I would also like to thank Trevor D, with out his love for Amiga and his financial support and true dedication there would be no A-EON or AmigaOne computers for Amiga On The Lake to sell. Thank you Matthew and Trevor and to all the developers out there that work hard with little reward a very BIG THANK YOU

Happy thanksgiving
Aaron Smith

@apsturk

+1 and great to hear AmigaOnTheLake is doing fine and especially that you guys are getting new blood into AmigaNG

Happy Thanksgiving to all US amigans & happy belated to all us canucks

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@apsturk

Happy Thanksgiving and superb that there now is an Amiga shop available on the other side of the pond (America) as well!

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@marko

Agreed, very nice to have a US resource.
I was getting tired of the blank stares from people when I mentioned my hobby interests.

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@apsturk

Well done Aaron

And nice to tell you, your name is quite similar to one of my favourite rock band (american too): Aerosmith

@apsturk

Grats with the sales, and what seems to be a booming start with your new venture!

@apsturk

I'm glad you posted this, because I didn't even know Amiga On The Lake existed. It's nice to have an Amiga dealer only 1200 miles away instead of on the other side of the planet.

I listened to AMIcast #16, and it sounds like you have big plans. I hope it works out, and that the A1222 arrives soon. I missed the window on the sam440 and sam460, and the X1000 and X5000 are more than I am willing to spend.

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@apsturk

Thanks Aaron!

For anyone else reading this, I highly recommend Amiga On The Lake and Aaron! I ordered a book from them about a week ago, and received it yesterday.... and today, I ordered myself an AmigaOne X5000! Aaron called me, went over my order, and just talked about Amiga and the community.

Great guy, great service, and a huge benefit to us here in the United States!

Thanks again, can't wait to get my new AmigaOne X5000!

-Slygon (Eric)

Last edited by slygon on 26-Nov-2016 at 09:58 PM.

@slygon

& now another official welcome on this site as well!

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X1000 I BELIEVE

@klx300r

Thanks for the repeat welcome! You should be seeing me a lot more now! No more lurking! ;)

-Slygon

@slygon

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mancave-ramblings
X1000 I BELIEVE

@apsturk

Great to hear the X5000 is selling so well. You said "never used AmigaOS4 before", so I'm guessing they're mostly 68K.

Been browsing the site for a while, and have been tempted to order an X5000 MB, but I'll continue to wait until AmigaKit makes a listing. You still have quite a few interesting items - I think I might get a t-shirt!!

Happy Holidays.

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I wish you all the luck and as an Amigan I thank you for your initiative and courage. It's sometimes easier to get stuff from the states to the mid-east than from europe so maybe we will meet on a consumer basis. Keep updating if you like and I'm interested to read what new Amiga customers are thinking about the X5k and AmigaOS so maybe you could talk a little bit about that here.