The ultimate Amiga One (what it should be)

[HopperJF]

I think the decision to make new amiga hardware based around the PowerPC processor was the right one.
I strongly believe these are the best processors on the market, quality wise, and through efficiency and speed.
It is also worth noting to traditionalists that PowerPC is the next natural step up from 68k. If Commodore didn't go under, we would more than likely be running PowerPC based Amigas today they introduced, probably not a far cry from today's Macs in terms of specs.

Secondly it is worth noting that the AmigaOne is not intended to be a mass market machine, it is just used as a machine which is more powerful than the old PPC accelerators which will run AmigaOS 4 and open a new path to expansion - classic Amiga hardware isn't going to be working forever, and I believe AmigaOne is a good machine to get the Amiga started into coming back, and into the 21st century.
These first of the new generation Amigas do not really need to be very powerful, it is just a starting block into hopefully getting the Amiga some commercial market recognition in upcoming years. Once Eyetech believe there is a user base, and indeed hope for our platform (providing we don't all grudgingly hold onto our old hardware and get AmigaOne's sooner or later) then they will start producing better machines aimed at the general public. The current generation of AmigaOne is NOT aimed at the public, it is aimed at the existing user base.

This should hopefully start to happen around the same time that Hyperion start work on AmigaOS 4.2, which is when it is speculated they are going to start developing for people outside the Amiga community.
AmigaOS 4 is just AmigaOS ported to native PPC for existing Amiga users.

And you can bet  your bottom dollar Eyetech wont suddenly change processor after Hyperion and everyone going to all that hard work into getting AmigaOS onto PPC!  :lol:

[HopperJF]

There not Commodore either!
Come on guys an A1200 style, or even bigger A500 style case would kick ass
With tweaks here and there they wouldnt look outdated at all

In fact it would look very modern compared to horrible towers

[HopperJF]

sir_inferno wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Come on guys an A1200 style, or even bigger A500 style case would kick ass

yes, or CDTV style :-)

http://cybernetman.com/default.cfm/DocId/602.htm

a lot nicer looking than that though, thats just boring :-P

[HopperJF]

BigBenAussie wrote:
You're going to hate me for saying this........Sorry in advance.....
If I was AmigaInc or KMOS.... I would be licensing XBox2 technology, porting OS4 to it and slapping in an Amiga box like the Amiga Fantasy. Problem solved..... All the games you could want on cheap powerful hardware, as well as the ability to load up AmigaOS if you want. Just like the original Amigas, slap in a DVD Game and go, they never used to hit the OS anyway.... Of course the bootscreens would be Amiga specific......and boot you straight into OS4.

Absolutely, but i think Sony would be the best bet.