thedaemon wrote:
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I am quite surprised by how expandable, and upgradeable an amiga is. you can still make them a decently fast machine, and they haven't been in production in years.
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Yes - this is what still fascinates me as well, although I'm an Amigan already since 1989...
thedaemon wrote:
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with the way computers are heading this day, a small affordable "media pc" would be the way to go to get amiga out there.
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Thats exactly the way I'm feeling since about a year - there definitely is a need for such an item.
But it should be an real attractive alternative pricewise to what people use today for listening to music/mp3s, to watch movies, to surf the web and write some e-mails.
I mean - if the average user today buys a Wintel box, he is funding the development of things he himself has no use for, never favoured and would never spend a dime on.
The effect is that the users pay for things that just companies and professionals need - so these features just needed by companies and professionals can become cheaper for them.
If you can get millions of people to pay for things they do not need nor want but are included in the product anyway, then the product becomes cheaper as if just the few thousands who actually need these particular features bought the product.
(Writing this I had e.g. Windows's support for networking and multiuser or this DRM thingie in mind, which is not needed by the average user but by companies and professionals and bloats the code - at least from an "average user's" POV)
So the "average users" really could be better off (financially) if all the stuff that companies and professionals need was not included in the product.
So I would come to the conclusion that it would be better to split this product (OS) into (at least) two different products (one to satisfy the needs of companies and professionals and the other one to meet the needs of the "average users") than to have an "oviparous wool-milk-sow"-like product.
