Amiga HW price in a perspective

[amigadave]

..... My 3ghz aros pc can run rings around ANY morph or amiga os machine, and it costs a tenth of the price of their a morph os or amiga os machine.
 
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a morph or amiga os machine, I just refuse to pay so much for such slow aging hardware.
 
Steven

I didn't realize that you could get 3GHz AROS PC's for about $50, as the cost of a registered MorphOS MacMini is only about $500, but then your cost estimate was reversed wasn't it.  Your 3GHz AROS PC really cost about ten times what the lowest priced MorphOS machine costs, as a few Efika's have been recently advertised at $225 to $250, including the registered license for MorphOS.

[amigadave]

Must have touched a nerve to get such a heated response.  

I don't have blinders on, and have not bought a SAM to run AmigaOS4.1 for just the reasons that you have written, but I am also not interested in any $50 PC's and doubt very much that you find complete 3GHz PC's at that price "all the time".  

I have a couple dozen computers here (mostly Amigas) and one of them is a 3.0GHz Quad Core PC that I have had for a while and I would gladly trade it for a decent spec'd fairly recent (read Intel) desktop Mac, but I am very happy to use my 1.5GHz G4 MacMini with registered MorphOS2.4 running on it, and plan to use it more and more for everyday stuff and some AmigaOS/MorphOS programming.

 I don't disagree with your assertion that the pricing of ANY Amiga hardware is high and not comparable to hardware for other platforms.  I also do not agree with the OP's attempt at logic, but for the Amiga fanatics, price is not an obstacle.  Most of them are just happy to have any hardware to run their OS of choice on.

Edit: FYI, AmigaOS4.x does not run on the Efika, only MorphOS2.x, and as I stated in my post, there have been a couple Efika's with the full registered MorphOS2.4 license included offered for sale recently for between $225 to $250.

2nd Edit: I also forgot to say that if MorphOS, or AmigaOS ever get ported to modern hardware, I will be second in line, right behind you to buy it.  AROS is a great idea, but it has not impressed me yet.

[amigadave]

Yeah, I love the lampshade ones.  You can paint the bottom part in a red/white chequered pattern and call it a boing ball!

I thought the same thing, but IIRC, when I was checking which Macs might have similar specs to the MacMini G4, I think the lampshade iMacs did not have Radeon graphics cards, which would rule them out from running MorphOS at any time in the near future (unless someone has been working on other graphics drivers without telling anyone about them).