That's exactly why I consider desktop computing the last place the Amiga souls should try to reincarnate. One thing is AROS, which I consider the only viable 'future' for the old Amiga habits in the PC era, the other is what I imagine about an Amiga platform rebirth: it might be a tablet-like device with unique features smarter people than me should transform from dreams to reality. Something I can wear, for instance, which will augment reality. Think about a pair of special glasses that may integrate a GUI-overlay to the real environment and work with the movement of eyes, but definitely not a old, big, heavy, ugly desktop minitower.
Yeah, everything is a computer these days... phones, mp3 players, pads, even kitchen appliances. There will probably always be a place for the tower in there somewhere... at least as a base port for all those other gizmos. I wonder though if there's room for another player in the tablet market? I just saw an article today wondering if there weren't already too many OSes in that market.
I like the idea with the glasses... I read something like that in a sci-fi story. The guy had a "laptop", but used glasses that drew out the display with lasers directly on the retina. (ouch!). Sensor gloves on the hands replaced the keyboard & mouse.. the same laser drew a virtual keyboard. With a setup like that, you could bypass the pads, and go with something the size of an old school transistor radio as a portable computer.
As for Amiga... well best to maintain it's niches where it can... retro, emulation, FPGA.. should be enough there.
