POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?

[AmigaEd]

This was a difficult one for me to vote on. In the end I chose Aros and here is my logic (or lack there of)...

I really love the Classic machines and have a home full of the stuff to prove it. The fact is though that the world is marching on and my classic hardware and software is less and less capable in many ways when compared to what is here today and what is coming in the future. Having said that, I still almost voted for classic on the basis that I'm hopeful that Aros68K might give the opportunity to do some of the things many of us have longed to be able to do with our classic systems.

In the end I voted Aros, because I find myself traveling fairly often and it's just too difficult to cart along a classic system (No thanks to airline baggage fees). With Aros I can carry my laptop anywhere in the world and still have that special Amiga experience.

Now in all fairness, I also carry WinUAE with me and I'm quite happy with my experiences with that.

I don't have any experience with it, but I think MorphOS is something that I could gravitate towards quite easily. It looks nice, seems well thought out, has a good selection of features and some very knowledgeable people behind it. Problem is that for some reason, I just can't bring myself to plunk down money for MorphOS and the hardware needed to run it.

On the hardware options, fact is I'm a hardware guy. I enjoy working with computers, hardware and software. I enjoy designing and building projects both for my work and home. However, It is really difficult for me to see many "justifiable" reasons for getting on-board with many of the NG hardware projects because they are all too obscure in their own way. I'm not saying I oppose these projects and in fact I would encourage them. They are great fun for the developers and the communities that form around them. I'm just saying that most are little more than a hobby and will never bring to fruition what more so "mainstream" hardware has and can. I guess I'd prefer to make the wheel better, rather than reinventing it.

Regards,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

geeze Ed you stole my whole freaking post!

in other words +1

LoL... I never did know when to shut up!:roflmao:

[AmigaEd]

... you don't just get to introduce something totally unrelated and claim it's the same thing. Legal, maybe, but sane/correct/ethical? No.

I'm pretty sure that nothing like this has ever happened in the world of business before...

Hmmm... I see you are in Minnesota... 3M

[AmigaEd]

we just laughed and waved our bums at them...

:laughing: Lol... Now we know why they left!

[AmigaEd]

See, I'm not getting where this "it has happened before, therefore this is hunky-dory" logic is coming from. Sure it's happened before, but that doesn't make it okay - remember New Coke?

(Also, my only loyalty to 3M comes from their manufacturing one of the few really good brands of duct tape.)

It's not that it's O.K. as much as it is about the state of affairs. Nearly everything we see today is a re-spin of something that came before it. There are some who would (and did) claim that even your coveted classic Amiga was conceived by Atari. What about IBM PC Clones... even if you had just ignored them on the basis of them being "unethical", would anyone else. Would anyone else even care? Would the market for IBM PC clones have suffered? I suspect not.

Btw... I still seem to have a preference for 3M PostIt notes, but many of the clones are not bad either. Certainly not something that I'm going to be pious about.