One unified OS for the future?

[biggun]

I talked about the choice of 32 bit 68k for the low end and 64 bit PPC for a high end Amiga with one unified API. Let's let the consumers choose:

1) 68k laptop Amiga for $1000
 o CPU speed of a Raspberry Pi or better
 o 1GB of memory
 o 40GB SSD
 o SAGA gfx with chunky
 o supports most 68k Amiga software
 o battery life of 16 hours

or

2) PPC laptop Amiga $7000
 o CPU speed of an i3 or better, 64 bit, 2-4 cores, virtualization support
 o 8GB of memory
 o 1TB hard drive
 o integrated modern gfx card
 o 68k software is sandboxed, PPC AmigaOS support is possible, no virtualization software
 o battery life of 4 hours

To be honest I find both way to expensive...

I would rather target something like this:


* 68K CPU with enhanced feature set and instruction providing multimedia acceleration
* 1 GB of fast main memory
   My design target would here by to reach 1.5 to 3.0 GB/sec memory copy speed.
   This means this 68K system would be about 10 times more powerful in memory than a PowerPC G4 Amiga.
* USB, Network and HDMI connectors
* Amiga Chipset with P96 und truecolor
* Video resolution up to full HD
* SDCard storage

We have the know-how to produce the above today.
The whole could be sold for $300-ish

[biggun]

A 68k laptop is my dream but it is quite a bit more work to make with quality and it really needs high enough production numbers to make it worthwhile. A small tower board makes more sense although it may be possible to make it in a shape that would fit in an existing laptop shell. My point with the laptops in general was to show how much more difficult and costly it would be to make a modern competitive laptop compared to a fun but still useful 68k netbook/laptop.



I think Gunnars estimates may be a little low but not that far off by looking at the Mist and fpga Arcade. I wish these boards would put more memory on board.

$300 for the system is not low.


Very similar FPGA systems as I did describe
* 1 GB memory
* video out,
*  SDCard,
and an FPGA actually twice as big
and twice as expensive as we need.

= the complete systems were sold for a retail price of $99.

This means is absolutely possible to produce such a system for less than $100.