Ease off bashing AmigaONE X1000?

[ElPolloDiabl]

The criticism has become tiring.

A) Price. Can't be helped because it is made in small batches.
B) PowerPC vs other. As a hobby system I suppose it doesn't matter.
C) Drivers. Coming along, but most people who buy it don't seem to care.

Not a fan, because PowerPC has probably been replaced by ARM. I should just keep the hobby alive and not get bogged down in arguments.

  There is a large faction of people who remember Amithlon and know that you can use an x64 computer.
  There is another faction that like to take advantage of old hardware to run an Amiga compatible OS. You could quiet these down by porting to one of the old Macs.
  I'm not sure when the x64 faction will get what they want.

[ElPolloDiabl]

@ TakeMeHomeGrandma above

I did not want to start a discussion. I was tired of people hijacking the
Amiga x1000 announcements. Those users should have some safe ground where they are free from abuse.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I think I can speak for a few others. I was hoping Amiga could return to a Linux level of usability. It probably won't happen. The largest group of users are here for nostalgia or as a hobby.
If the pressure is off for a grand Amiga return (not going to happen) there won't be as many arguments.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Olaf may be doing things (his something) over on AROS.
I may have brought up the 'port it to another architecture' a few years early.
But in a few years there may be no more PowerPC chips being made. Are you just going finish there?
Why not take advantage of all the things you can do with ARM based systems?

I will wait the 'few years' quietly. I don't need an ARM based Amiga now, but if you get around to doing it, I would buy it.

[ElPolloDiabl]

To be fair, three years ago the ARM computers available were a 600mhz netbook costing $350.
It does make a lot of sense today now that you can get a 1GHz ARM computer for $100.

It would take about 3-5 years to port it. Unless you have a full time team doing it. If they start now Amiga OS would only be a few years behind other OS'es.

[ElPolloDiabl]

But who's going to pay for it? 3 to 5 years without anything to sell? That's called suicide....

Ummm, do both?
That's kind of what I said by pointing out the ARM offerings 3 years ago were unimpressive.
As you know the latest ARM based phones have power that would surpass a lot of desktops.