I respectfully disagree.
I didn't write my post to offend any users of AmigaOS4.x, MorphOS, AROS, or AmigaOS3.x on Classic Amiga hardware, FPGA clones, or modern hardware running emulation.
I don't follow the PC world closely enough to know what the "latest" graphics cards are, but I think we are a bit closer than a few decades behind.
Sure we can pick certain parts of any Amiga inspired systems and show how that part is not a decade to 3 decades behind modern computers, but my comment still applies to overall performance of all of our systems. Except for AROS & emulation on the latest hardware, the fastest and best overall hardware choices are the X1000 for AmigaOS4.x and the G5 PowerMac for MorphOS, with new FPGA based recreations of the Motorola 680x0 and Classic Amiga chipset soon to be released for people who prefer to run AmigaOS3.x. I think if I wanted to waste some time, it would not be too hard to come up with overall performance benchmarks that would show that the hardware I just mentioned, which is only able to run on a single core of the dual core systems and without drivers that take full advantage of currently available HD video cards, can only be considered equal to mainstream systems that are at least a decade old, while the Amiga A1000 is about to turn 30 (though I admit it was far ahead of its time). My comment was not meant to offend, or disappoint, just a fact of reality, specially when thinking of how any big company in the IT field would perceive any of our best hardware platforms (as a whole, not piece by piece). I also don't mind that some people choose to have a different perception, or point of view, than mine, when it comes to the hardware and performance we currently enjoy.
I agree that we're not "cutting edge" of the market, but especially considering that we have to write our own drivers, I'm quite impressed with where we are today.
Not bad.. and I don't miss the 23 pin monitor port at all.
I am not complaining about where we are today, though I do wish there were some way to speed up development that would close the gap between OUR performance and software availability, compared to users of the three most used operating systems (Windows, MacOSX, & Linux). At least we have a few people working hard to provide good hardware and some of the software we need, which is far more than any other 30 year old platform that technically died 15 years ago, can say for themselves. Sure, things could be better, but they also could be so much worse.
I am all FOR celebrating what we do have, instead of complaining about what we don't have yet. But I also don't sugar coat reality, or try to wear colored glasses when I look at where we currently are, compared to other choices. I am very thankful that we still have any Amiga inspired choices. We don't have the hundreds of thousands of users that we once had in the Amiga community, but the people who remain are creating hardware and software still, and that is a great thing. I can't measure how active our community is at the moment, but it seems to be much better off than it was a few short years ago.
