Author: Alex F. (212.202.53.57)
Date: 06-11-2003 23:22
Yes, dreaming is OK :)
But when it goes to selling we have to convince people that this machine does everything a PC can do.
Well, what do we Atarians want?
We want a faster clone which makes DVDs and films possible.
We want more people to use an Atari so more software will come up in the future.
And these two points can be achieved with a "simple" CF-Atari.
By the way:
The CF doesn't need cooling,
neither does the Deesse,
the Matrox-graphics-card which they are going to use doesn't need cooling, too...
Now, this could really be something for a special market! This is something where the CF-Atari would be miles ahead...no noises at all :)
The disadvantages of PPCs are that it's more expensive and I really doubt the Atari world could manage this step to a different CPU.
I just think our position now is better than IBM's position in 1981. They got a crap CPU and a crap computer (which, in 1985, was about 7 (!) years behind) conquering the whole market though being years behind in hardware-technologies until about 1995. And M$ did it in a quite similar way. 6 (!) years after GUIs were standard on all systems they released a halfway useable desktop...
And where are we? If the CF-Atari comes true @300 MHz we are 5 years behind in CPU-speed...
And if someone really wants a 3-GHz-Atari: this is something for the Aranym-guys :)
(I will definately get CF-Atari -and- an Aranym-PC...I'm one of those nerds...)
