@WolfToTheMoon

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How is that going to work with Sam460 already being there for lower cost OS4 users? any mention of a mobile amigaone in the future?

i don't know -- but he just mentioned that the next generation (if any) would focus on getting the cost down. not any more than that was said. at least that i remember.

he did, however, say that he personally would like to see an OS4 laptop. something that i very, very, very much would like to see. i've been obsessed about building a portable SAM for a while now, but a professionally manufactured notebook, oh yeah!

he didn't say he would be behind such an effort, just that he, as a user, would like to see one happen and that he estimated that others would as well.

@thread

hopefully a podcast of the roundtable will be posted sooner rather than later and everyone can catch up.

-- eliyahu

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@WolfToTheMoon

Laptop, I believe was mentioned. Not 100% sure.

@eliyahu

OT : any progress concerning portable SAM ? or is it just a thought to be put into life ?


EDIT : added 'OT'

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@exec

1. You can buy commodore case and a x1000 and see if you can do some work putting the x1000 board inside the commodore case. But then you want x86 so question 2 is also answered. How can they plan for x86 if the fail PPC when x1000 sale public havent started yet.

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@Kicko

please don't feed the t.... the... t... t...
just don't provoke a flame, let's have a clean topic here without any C=USA/AROS/x86 tussle

EDIT : The above is slightly irrelevant cos Kicko changed his post upside down ;)

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@nimrod7

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nimrod7 wrote: @eliyahu OT : any progress concerning portable SAM ? or is it just a thought to be put into life ?

Several times T.D. stated that actions were louder than words and,
in keeping with that philosophy, his focus is closer to the Now.

Probably needs a new crystal ball.


Edit: OOPS! see post #47

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i've asked eliyahu ;)

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i have been on a inguinal hernia surgeon this friday so im under morphine or something like that so my head feels like upside down :)

@nimrod7

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OT : any progress concerning portable SAM ? or is it just a thought to be put into life ?

it wasn't anything i would want to commercialize. just a homebrew thing.

basically i wanted a portable, wireless OS4 box i could use on a train or while lying down. i got as far as building the bezel for the display, getting the LCD display itself and a controller with a VGA feed-in, and found some nice (but expensive) hinges, but no farther. the biggest issue was wireless. even with an L-extender for the PCI slot the height was just too big for the lower section. and of course i wasn't planning on putting a battery in 'er, just using a picoPSU and plugging in. that having been said, with the SAM440ep (not the flex), there is tons of room. i was planning on integrating an SSD and slim-line DVD drive as well. with the hinges and display -- and using a regular hard drive just for this purpose -- it came in at nearly nine pounds.

more of a SAM portable than a SAM notebook!

if i ever get it farther along i'll post photos here, but i think the best example of a 'portable' SAM thus far was the touchscreen unit built by the redoubtable simon archer some time ago.

with the z196 GA behind me now i might have time on the weekends to try and finish it to show at amiwest, but i really doubt it.

i would definitely bet on trevor funding one of these before i even finished my little homebrew project. especially as i no longer have access to a good router setup.

-- eliyahu

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@thread

Interview with Trevor Dickinson now available:

http://www.amigaz.org/category/amiga-roundtable

Direct link:

http://www.amigaz.org/2010/09/12/art-episode-47-a-sunday-with-trevor

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Interview with Trevor Dickinson now available:

Thanks!

Just what the thread has been waiting for. This link should really be in the news section.

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@eliyahu

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i got as far as building the bezel for the display, getting the LCD display itself and a controller with a VGA feed-in

I haven't checked with Acube but the Sam440ep should be able to drive the LCD directly, unfortunately yours is not likely to have the require LVDS connector on the motherboard.

@DaveP

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DaveP wrote: Keep going at it eXec. People need to wake up to AROS.

I cannot speak for the others - just for myself.
And I do not have "to wake up to AROS".
I kept an eye on it since the project was launched years ago.
Its just that its not mature enough to be useful to me when I looked at it last time.

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nice program, interesting listening exp and some interesting things mentioned (e.g. about linux distros for x1000 and linux users interest in x1000 + xmos example app(?) bundled with x1000 on which someone close to XMOS Ltd. works), keep up the good work Trevor

...viva polonia ;)

EDIT : added '...viva polonia ;)'

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@number6
Is it possible to have the interview in text format?
Thanks

@nimrod7

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e.g. about linux distros for x1000 and linux users interest in x1000

Hmmm....

So, linux-amiga haters, what do you have to say on that now?

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@WolfToTheMoon

maybe there are some linux haters here but if i am concerned i'm amused when somebody say we should replace amigaos/aros with ubuntu-like distro. Trevor thinks wise that some up to date Linux-distro should be available on all 'amiga' platforms, wheter it is x1000, sam or the mentioned amiga-laptop, which is a dream i hope to be realised sometime in the future. Linux is able to bring new tired-of-x86-users to a new machine, that's all.

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@nimrod7

I am ready to hit the BUY button

@WolfToTheMoon

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So, linux-amiga haters, what do you have to say on that now?

Nothing, they will run AmigaOS4.x in their X1000. Those like me, who need or want to use Linux sometimes or for a specific task won't have to use a pc just for that.

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: So, linux-amiga haters, what do you have to say on that now?

HUH!

Linux on X1000 ? Hooray!

I think you have some crossed wires. We (I) don't want to *replace* our OS with Linux.

Both have been residing on amigas for a long time.