What's the point of the MiniMig?

[DBAlex]

Whats the point of the MiniMig?

If i'm being honest I don't really have a clue, who wants an A500 at the end of the day? Yes its useful for running games and legacy applications but there are an abundance of A500's for this task allready available plus of course there is UAE, WinUAE, E-UAE, WinFellow, MaxUAE etc etc etc

In my opinion what I would find more useful is a MiniMig clone/revision that would have say an 060 and possibly intergrated graphics that were supported in AmigaOS by the RTG  system, this would be a good machine for the interlude between classic and "modern" hardware in my opinion and would at least provide new purchaseable hardware that was not from ebay that is likely to break in the future.

Thats my dream, the reality is, that it will never happen.  :-D So, for now I can just sit and wait and dream (Oh and play with far superior operating systems such as OSX :-P) Hehe, Joking of course! :lol: :-o

[DBAlex]

@Homer:
I understand that its great that its new hardware, I really do.

However its the fact that its so useless to me and many others, I personally don't need an A500, such a low powered machine, that is I suppose the only negative, the positives are that its a free open source amiga design that can be expanded on etc in the future.

I do honestly *like* the MiniMig project, I just don't think its useful for people like me at the moment! (People who would like to play around with AmigaOS on REAL fairly powerful hardware)