Ideas: The new Amiga. Yes, it's inevitable!

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Beast96GT wrote:

dammy wrote:
I find these threads rather amusing as if people have not gotten a clue that a new hardware is never going to be released that can make any tech dent in the current marketplace.  I find it even more amusing that people could even think the Amiga market is economically viable for any corporation to invest money in to make that dent.

Dammy

I think it's amusing how people like you feel they must contribute to the forums, yet you have nothing to contribute.  This thread is meant only for fun and conjecture--you may leave at any time.   :-)

You say he has nothing to contribute... in a thread about nothing... seems perfect to me.

In reality he has said something realistic in a thread that is a pointless waste of bandwidth.

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cicero790 wrote:
O.K explain the reality Bloodline. We should all shut up and get Iphones :lol:

Well, no... the iPhone isn't a desktop computer :-)

But some people here are not expressing realistic desires for a new computer... let alone an amiga...

If this is fantasy thread then why not have a Flux Capacitor... I'd love to visit 1985...

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A6000 wrote:
The great thing about the amigas custom chipset was/is that it gave each model a long life, 24 years and counting,

It was users too tight to upgrade that gave the Amiga it's long life... THe Custom chipset gave it a 4 year headstart over the rest of the industry, then the industry cought up... and the Amiga died.

whilst PCs are obsolete in 4years or less.

So that stock A1200 you bought in 1992 was still able to keep up with a PC in 1996?

If a future amiga used off the shelf parts, it would need to be regularly upgraded too, GPU's have a life span of just 2 years or so,

Nvidia have been working to a 6 month product lifecycle for a long time... I think the rate has slowed now... though I could be wrong.

and newer software would not run fast enough on a 4 year old amiga that used off the shelf parts.

How would it be any different with a custom design?

Fast processors and gigabytes of ram encourages lazy programming.

No it doesn't, it allows developers more freedom. The software I run on my MacBook Pro today would be unthinkable on a top of the line desktop machine 8 years ago!