The Lounge is a year old!

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Happy new year everyone! The Amiga Lounge is One year old.
Just a quick thank you going out to all of you this week. We have had close to 100 thousand hits last year, and its been an adventure. I have had the chance to chat with many of past Commodore and Amiga employees and the wisdom and stories they have past on is truely priceless for myself.
What will 2010 bring? Well, I am looking now at a replacement for my ageing Voodoo laptop. Even though it is still a great unit, and I do love it (if you remember my old blog Iboughtavoodoolaptop.com)
It never the less, has to be upgraded soon. The problem is that HP has taken over Voodoo and they no longer have the replacement that I desire. The conundrum is that how do I remain a loyal Voodoo owner when Voodoo is no longer even a spot on HP's roadmap? I certainly do not want to be-little HP, but they do not even come close in overing a "High end" laptop.
I do not want to go to DELL /Alienware, because I fear that DELL has soiled the quality of Alienware products.
I could go with just getting a new Clevo, and building it myself or I can go to Falcon NW.
Falcon NW offers the "Fragbook DTR" which is the upgrade to my Voodoo U709. I am not sure at this point what I am going to do,for it probably be late summer before I do anything.
Voodoo still after all these years are saying "SOON" (it is their mission statement now) so we will just have to wait and see. I may have to get a new domain name soon and do a blog about the Falcon NW- LOL

On the Amiga front.
I am still putzing around and toying with some "upgrades" for my Amiga from AmigaKit.com, but the recent bout with the hardware developers from overseas has still left a bad taste in my mouth over the truly greedy and outrageous pricing of some components. That and the fact that AmigaKit still doesn't have an ECS indivision card for the Amiga 1000, have left me pondering what to do about that.
If you have been living under a rock lately, Hyperion and A-EON have "announced" the new X1000 motherboard available later this year. Translation a VEEERY expensive "high end" Amiga system, that will not sell and be forgotten by Christmas. Yes, the will make exactly the same mistake and launch this board at and outrageous price and sit back and wonder why nobody is buying it, nor developing for it. Its a shame that greed will kill this machine before it is even available to the public. The SAM has proven that over and over. I expect that this system will cost at least $2,500 USD at launch. I will be quite surprised if it is affordable.

On the Commodore 8-bit Front:
All I hope to get this year is a nice C128D unit, and a 1901 monitor. A C116 would be nice, and a nice boxed C16, but those can wait. I am running out of room and I need to either get a basement or start that museum I have talked about.

Here is looking forward to a good 2010 for everyone. I thank you for stopping by and hopefully I will get more juicy updates on a regular basis.