If you like the way of the Amiga, and like to mess with the OS. If you like to run Workbench you are going to really enjoy next gen Amiga.
For myself, the question was never if I want or do not want a next gen Amiga because of price. I was sure I wanted it even if it had a premium price because looking back, I spent some serious cash on this hobby. I was prepared to pay 700 euro for the Boxxer back in the late 90'ies (and that was without a 68k CPU), and hey, if Mick Tinker sees this I am still prepared to pay serious money for a Boxxer system. If you want to belong to the 4.1 club you need to pay for that premium, you may like it or not. But that is just the way it is right now (it may change in the future, we dont know).
What you are going to do with your next gen Amiga system is 100% up to you. Nobody is going to force you to use it over your PC and nobody is going to cheer you for paying 1000 dollars for a pathetic 500 MHz machine, I guess, if you feel the desire to be at the cutting edge of Amiga technology (booth hardware/software tech) you just get it and know what to do with the system.
That cutting edge Amiga tech could have been a quadcore with 4 GB mem for 399 dollars - but it is not. If people could look back and travel back in time I am sure we would today have a 400 dollar Amiga more powerfull than we have now, or maybe -gasp- a free next gen Amiga (would you complain then?). But the situation is what it is, either you like it or not: if you are truly passionate about Amiga, 1000 dollars to experience what a modern variant of AmigaOS feels like is peanuts, and yes the differense between 4.1 and WinUAE is huge (yes even on a fast PC).
If you dont get it, fine, I can fully understand that. But please, I suspect we are all here Amigans at heart and blood so why not be a bit more open minded and positive instead of being so narrow sighted and finding flaws and faults.
This is after all an Amiga community, and Amiga is still alive (at least with life support) - Is that not great?!
So it costs 1500 dollars, so there is no reason at all to get a Sam440, so you can get a five QuadCore systems for that price, so Classic Amiga is the real deal?
Why not take ACTION and JUST DO IT?
