@OldFart

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A Radeon R7 requires you to buy that driversuite as developed by Hans de Ruyter in order to make full use of its potential. Available from A-Eon's website.

Enhancer is included with all Cyrus+ motherboards and X5000 systems so there's no extra drivers to buy unless you want the SI driver for the old Warp3D API.

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In the meantime, life after Brexit continues as normal for normal EU citizens like me.

Buying a X5000 kinda disqualifies you from being a "normal EU citizen"

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@Petah

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51.9% UK citizens who thought they were in favor of leave.

Why would anything have changed? Only 36% of UK citizens bothered to vote at the last European Election because it MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHO YOU VOTE FOR!!! None of the MEP are actually accountable to us the voters because they were never named representatives elected as personal representatives of the people but syphoned off a proportional representation list where we voted for a party who then put their 1st, 2nd and possibly 3rd choice cronie into a larger more faceless EU-wide party! The 'elected' MEP individuals are pushed forward into a bureaucratic EU system where they collectively act like an upper House of Lords type chamber and debate, amend slightly and ultimately rubber stamp the will and legislation originating from the Commission. The EU Commission is a quango made up of even more unrepresentative cronies and mates of the Heads of State!!!

We are happy to be out of this crooked sick excuse for a democratic institution! We will live and die by our own ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive not by bureaucratic "stronger together" federalist tosh!

Back on topic please!

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@geen_naam

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buying expensive toys like an X5000 is hardly out of the ordinary compared to buying >€500k tv's, >€1000 phones, >€40k cars, €400k houses etc.

Exactly. People often make preposterous investments in their hobbies because they bring them some kind of personal value - a value that is highly individual and cannot be expressed in simple market terms.

The X5000 is horribly expensive, no doubt about that. But I find it quite funny that it so often becomes a target around here, while other obviously insane hobbies - like expanding a Classic system with all sorts of expensive bells and whistles - are hardly ever considered mental.

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@geen_naam

haha, well said bro.. it has become crazy costly with gadget shit you just must have

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@Trixie

Thanks a LOT Trixie.. Now you made me mentally review my classic purchases and I now have a stomach ache..

LOL

AND

Now I am looking once again at the X5000 due to your statement..

OH GAWD

@Trixie

And lets not forget that a 2000,-- euro PC after 5 years will be worth... 100,-- euro..
But the AmigaOne X5000..... after 5 years... i would say at least 1000,--

Its something special... not perfect...but special

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@geen_naam

Nice. You won't regret it. I just gave myself a similar kit. Best christmas in a long time. And I don't understand this endless discussion about price either. It's a hobby, it doesn't have to make sense. Only boring hobbies make sense.

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@geen_naam: Thanks for the update. Sounds good

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@tygre

I suppose you wish Canada was under the jurisdiction of the equivalent of the Star Wars Galactic Trade Federation? Yes, everyone joins on the premise of economic prosperity but at the cost of having national legislation and democratic parliament usurped by foreign entities with aspirations of a Galactic Empire/EU Army with further degrading of national sovereignty and undermining of NATO etc?

Yes, clinging to the status quo ‘seems’ safer but the UK ALWAYS viewed the EU as a trading partner and NOTHING more. It makes no sense for the mother of all parliaments to be further absorbed into the Federalist Republic of Europe which was the direction of travel.

A high EU-wide Gini Coefficient, no directly elected MEP representative just proportional representation party lists and a general democratic deficit mean the EU is not something any free state should be chained to IMHO. That is unless you live in a nation state so paranoid about the possibility of starting a future war that you’d happily make it legally impossible to declare war on other member states by joining this compromised mess! In my view the way Greece was dealt with in the aftermath of the credit crunch produced enough grievances to start a war whether it would have been legal or not!

The EU can happily continue to trade with us but never should have instructed us on legislation (EU directives) and told us how to spend our taxes (EU development fund). The EU had no democratic mandate to act in the manner it now does! It was never held to account and just became more power hungry and federalist over time.

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@geen_naam: Thank you for the update. Have fun with your AmigaOne X5000!

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@geen_naam

Pretty much the world I have lived in when ever I have bought from AmiKit. EU member or not, I can't see things changing much for me living in Australia and ordering from them.

I have always bought from them in UK Pounds and never been charged VAT. The problems for me is the exchange rate for the Australian dollar is pretty crap and the shipping cost. I have in the past only been charged important tax for one item so far but it was in the same league as the X5000 (it was my X1000).

@geen_naam

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OK, let me rephrase: There is still no "Amiga". No-one seems to be accepted as the company to be in charge and lead the way. That the amiga brand is now to be registered in the US by some emulation company will not change that. It will probably open up some new rearguard law suits about using the amiga name. But the amiga name is as relevant as the Sunbeam or Trabant brands today. So I can imagine why Hyperion is not spending any money on it anymore. Especially in the US where there are even fewer users than in europe.

It will become more clear once the owner is free to dispense information on Amiga.com.
The owner was required to send a SOU (statement of use) to the examiner, which was accepted late yesterday.
Translation: licensing
Ergo, it would be premature to say that Amiga Corporation would be the sole user of the name.

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@number6

how much for an Amiga one 5040.
then 040 is the only one that brings new to the platform ( more power) the 020 is only a replacement for the no longer selling x1000

its a shame thinks is not working out, but better late then never.
the amiga should have been sold for what it was worth. the amiga store app should be around in 97/98
then at least a little more would still be around.
the hole morphos battle was a waste of resources. see i don't even have smp now.
its so frustrating that the few developers that's left is pulling in each deration and power has been waisted trying to build the wheel two times when wee barley can build it once

@geen_naam

Welcome to the X5000 gang, and have fun with your new girlfriend! ;)

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