(Legerdemain): I have come to just look upon the Amiga as a fun hobby ...(snip)... I'm pretty satisfied with things as they are now. I do have my old Amigas to play around with... and what the future brings doesn't matter to me, today, really
Couldn't have put it better myself... I also enjoy messing around with the old hardware and stuff, but could never justify an AmigaOne even when they were briefly available - due to the huge cost involved in buying one. Plus there's the issue of what it would be used for, above and beyond the "tinkering" I do with the classic stuff...
I wish A.Inc well, and hope something comes of the whole OS4 episode... But I feel the days of expensive proprietary hardware are long gone...
Even if OS4 is ported to inexpensive x86 hardware, it'd have to be sensibly priced (e.g. cheap!) for it to sell in any numbers, especially seeing as there are plenty of zero cost OSs to choose from...
Personally, I'm looking forward to see the direction the MiniMig will take... I hope that comes to market in one form or another...
And I'm also keeping an eye on AROS as that's improving all the time...
- Ali
