yup, i hear what you're saying, and 100 million would by a house for me, my parents, my girlfriends parents, and my good friends.
then i'd have enough left over to maybe play about with investments and stuff. i don't think 100mil would get you anywhere near a new machine to market,so i'd look at other ventures. however, if i did have the capital behind me...
not sure how far it would go with development of a new machine. but i'd buy out A.inc or whoever they are these days, sack the crap out of the management, cancel their pension funds/401ks or whatever and have them investigated for fraud, buy out hyperion and give those guys a massive "thank you" bonus and "stay pay" to stay on and dev some more. merging both companies should iron out any legal disputes, or have hyperion in a offical consultancy capacity to Amiga. help out red/vesalia/softwarehut/amigakit to become regional distributers if they want,
hire the talent we have on the amiga forums
if you were really flush with cash, buyout Nvidia - put it under some decent management, buyout AMD/ATI, ie, so you have a controlling share of GPU development as ATI did the xbox360, Wii, Gamecube, Nvidia did the Xbox, and PS3. maybe munch into Motorola as i don't think they're doing to complain much these days.
then you'll have a fairly solid foundation to generate funky hardware. but obviously keep churning out some parts that fit the current market in order to fund your R&D.
the sooner the world ditches x86 and moves on, the better. its about time for a revolution rather than an evolution. and when you bring something to market, it has to be a top to bottom range.
PDA/(i)Phone alike mobile device so you can get your contacts/emails, run some basic apps, stream IPTV/music from your media centre machine, maybe even RDP into your home/office machine.
CDTV/CD32 alike set-top box home theater / media centre machine with multiple cable/sat/digital terrestrial tuners, and IPTV streaming to other "media extenders".
A500/A1200 alike for gamers and learner coders.
A3000 alike funky serious machine that doesn't look out of place in the home / homeoffice
A2000/A4000 alike heavey weight machines for businesses and enthusiasts. not being funny, but spreadsheets sell machines. we've just put in an order for another floor of machines. probably about 300, with minimum 4 screens each. on an average joe level, people want the same as they have at work, at home.
my idea would be to ween the world off backwards x86. but i heard somewhere intel puts in something like $2billion a year on development. so $100million may just about cover your marketing budget... :roll:
so we need a few of us to win the euro millions, the UK lottery after a few roll overs, and there has to be a lottery in the US?
then we all join up as a business entity and do this thing! :lol:
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i was thinking about this... in the grand scheme of things, $100mil isn't that much these days.
house for me, my parents, my girlfriends parents, holiday home for the same three, say a million$ a time. thats 6mil.
flat/town house in the city for somewhere to crash after a heavy night out, another mil - or 2 for river front property. nice cars, holiday... thats $10mil gone in the first week.
then i'd buy houses for my close friends so they never have to have the milstone of a mortgage around their necks. at current prices, that'll prolly be another 10mil$.
then i have to maintain the lifestyle to which i am to become accustomed for the rest of my life. god knows how much that'll cost. start my own business, do things i really enjoy, be a "silent investor" in hyperion :-D and that's before i've even thought about buying up all the scraps of amiga and putting it all together...
