The A500 was cheap(ish), played games as easy as inserting the disk, and could plug straight into a TV/stereo.
The AmigaOne seems to be an ordinary PC with motorolla instead of intel (a good thing, but it's still a PC). No custom hardware? This is one thing that makes classic amiga so 'classic'. Is WB4.0 going to be any more than LINUX-XWINDOWS with amigalike icons and bundled linux drivers?
I AM NOT GOING TO BUY A ONE OF THESE. NOT FOR >$1K!
For about $200 I can get an XBOX and for another $50 I can have a mod chip installed by a local technician. So for <$300 I can get a system capable of emulating A500, SNES, NES, MAME, STE, GENESIS, MASTER SYSTEM, etc., as well as running linux (albeit poorly), connecting to a network and browsing html, performing ftp, etc. And also playing DivX, MPEG, WMA, etc, etc, etc. The reason this is so cheap is because M$ apparently make no money of the console itself, just games sales. So if we all did this, maybe M$ would be in the [bleep].
I would be more prepared to spend my money on an extremely souped up classic amiga, than on one of these new 'wonder amiga's.
