Will Amiga ever live again?

[Van_M]

Anywayz, if Commodore hadn't gone to the heavens, AmigaOS 7.5 would easily give MacOs X (10.3) a run for its money in responsiveness, boot up speed and ease of use. Windows? Did someone say Windows?!? As for the hardware, Commodore would sell 1400/G4 for 289 quid with: G4 processor at 1400+ MHz, Radeon 9000 graphics chip (with TV-OUT), Turtle Beach sound chip, ATA/133 bus, 6 USB ports on the back of the case, one or two PCI ports, no legacy ports, internal DVD-Rom/CD-R combo, AmigaOS 7 or 7.5, all the necessary applications for free (basic office suite, image processing, browser, Java). Wouldn't that be a winner?

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Forgot to mention... all this in a nice 1200-like case... The PCI ports would have a small profile riser. The desktop cases would be for the high-end models.      

[Van_M]

I think the mistake of Commodore in the long run was the design and implementation of the so-loved custom chips, themselves. OK, they were a hell of cool and impressive in the beginning but in the long run, the competition passed ahead of them. Atari could build computers for cheap using off-the-shelf components while commodore kept on spending millions on design, even in '92, when chips like VGA's and Sound Blasters were mainstream.