Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 258
It's something for Amiga fans. For the most part, anyone that does not already want a portable Amiga can disregard this notice. You don't care, that's fine, don't trash talk those of us that do. I hate seeing Amiga news on Slashdot, while it does seem to be rather nerdy news, it's just not an accepted topic here. But being portable and relatively cheap for an Amiga platform today, maybe some who have drifted away might consider spending a few hundred bucks to check it out and enjoy Amiga again for a bit. No one thinks we'll be competing with Android on local superstore shelves with this thing. Amiga fans still around today may make Apple fans look like tremendously lucid normal people, but we aren't stupid to think we'll just walk into BestBuy or Fry's and sell millions of units. So don't go thinking this is anything we're expecting to see with this thing.
I myself would really prefer to see a higher performance laptop with optical drive, 15inch screen, and a Freescale AMP or the PA Semi chips they somehow got their hands on for the X1000 tower. I'd really prefer they port x86 or ARM so it's easy to get whatever hardware to run it on. But this is the only portable choice we've ever really had. As I haven't used a tower in years, they're buried in storage with no desk space to be hooked up on and I don't want to be tethred to said desk in some room anyway, I'm very happy about this tiny netbook thing. But that's my hobby interest. Nothing practical. Nothing useful to you. Just fun for me. And however many other Amiga fans are still around for it. And that's plenty good enough reason for me that this (will) exists.