@bodie:

not brave , but i had to..

but heh i didnt sell any of the IMPORTANT stuff , like my a1200 and all my boxed games and apps

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Shouldn't this news be "AmigaOne" instead of "hardware"?

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We need this kind of case :

Amiga Fantasy

If it has a case like it I can pay 100$ more for A1-lite

Or at least a install kit for a1-lite to install a1-lite into a1200 or a500 case.

well when will the price be announced really????????????????

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@Toaks
This is very important question because there are rumours on the net that the MicroA1 is only slightly cheaper than AOne.
In my opinion it can't be true!

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This is very important question because there are rumours on the net

Where on the net, morphzone?

The price is indeed a very important question. I hope it wont be much more than ~300Eur.

@rayt
Someone, who want to become a dealer, interested in buying from Eyetech posted that the price is unacceptable.
He said that " the price of MicroA1 plus OS4 was higher then AOne"
He posted that to the local amiga site. www.exec.pl (only Polish).
~300 Eur. I hope so.

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@rayt Someone, who want to become a dealer, interested in buying from Eyetech posted that the price is unacceptable. He said that " the price of MicroA1 plus OS4 was higher then AOne" He posted that to the local amiga site. www.exec.pl (only Polish). ~300 Eur. I hope so.

remember this is a price for a *limited run* of developer boards. of course they will cost more than the larger production run of final version boards.

calm down everyone heh. these are not for consumers so wait for proper prices to be announced before going off on one.

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Alan from Eyetech have already explained why an Amiga1 (micro or the original) cost as much as it does(Hint: see the videos from the Bath show).

Even though the MicroA1 initially costs more than the original A1 it's not the same as it will always be like that.

This is a very limited pre-production run, not intended for end users. When Eyetech finally decides to produce it for the end users, it will hopefully be in much larger quantities, lowering the individual price.

I wrote hopefully because I have a hard time to see where they should be able to sell 10K+ MicroA1's just after OS4 is released. But if the price is right, theres no DMA problems (in either OS4 or Linux), MOL runs perfectly etc. then perhaps theres a geek market for it :)

As I see it the Amiga platform won't be able to make a real comeback just after the OS4 release because of lack of software.
A good browser, JAVA and an office package are needed before we try to get "normal" people to buy it.

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I hope there is a version with an AGP slot. Please don't forget to make some kind of poll with that option. The possibility to upgrade the Gfx would be a big attraction in my opinion.

Needing a settopbox is gonna be a damn good excuse to buy this too by the way...

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Oh yeah. When my DVD player died two weeks ago, I decided that I'd replace it with a mini-ITX computer; that way, if anything dies on it I can just replace it, and I can easily get drivers for new formats (like the ever-changing DivX). I've got a backup DVD player I can use in the meantime (a little portable one I got as a present), but I want to replace it within the next few months. No reason why I can't get an Amiga instead of a VIA Epia

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I hope there is a version with an AGP slot. Please don't forget to make some kind of poll with that option. The possibility to upgrade the Gfx would be a big attraction in my opinion.

If I remember correctly they already said they wont make a microa1 with agp. Thats what the normal a1 is for. But I think a radeon 9xxx pci will still be faster than the onboard 7000. And after all there are no applications/games that would require something faster than a radeon 7000.

more than AMIGAONE XE or SE ??? for the Amigaone Micro ??? ... hmm this must be a bad dream!.

sharkppc is looking more and more tempting ya know...

seriously i wont pay 6000-8000 nok for a motherboard again ,not even if rained in my microwave!.

i will jump on board after this pre version, obviously they are made of gold or sometething!


/* this is where someone should jump in and say "don't worry , its just a rumour" , yes i know but sometimes rumors are true................

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They can't set a price until they know how many the first production run is for. They won't know how many to set the first production run for until they get feedback from their dealers that get their hands on one from this initial pre-production run.

It's obvious any claims from anyone outside of Eyetech about the price is just a load of old ####.

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@Toaks

Read his message again.

This is not the final consumer boards. It's just a board for prospective developers and other interested parties. It would be normal to sell these pre final production boards for a higher price than the final boards since they are produced in a very limited quantity.

/Björn

Or to give them away just to create a market.

But not necessarily to demo coders, a base of commercial apps is a lot more important.

But it's of course a lot more important to get the damn OS operational. Like Toaks says, you don't need an AmigaOne to develop for OS4. But having OS4 and its dev-kit would help...

I see from the latest Fleecy-"news" that the Amiga Power Platform website will be operational a month before the release of OS4. And before that there'll surely be an earlybird beta-release.
So I think it's safe to assume "not in March either". *sigh*

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