Will you be buying an AmigaOne X1000 ?

[amiga92570]

Welcome to reality in 2010.  The idea that the little guy that go 1 on 1 with a corp spending literally billions of dollars @ year on R&D is fantasy.  Even C= didn't bother to bake up their own CPU, they used what was best for them and moved on to something they had to create.  The world has changed since the 1980s, hardware is a fast changing commodity and the consumer has won out on buck:bang ratio.  Whatever you dreamed of as a mega computer to own back in the 80s and 90s can probably come to reality in mobile phone that they sell down at the mall.  If it's still not up to par, wait till this time next year, and it will be.

Just my two cents.

Interesting, I was not aware billion dollar Corps were competing in the Amiga Arena. I do know most New gadgets and Ideas are created by the "little Guy" as you call them. They may sell there ideas to Corporations or start partnerships to bring them to market. Look at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Dell, Gateway,  Ebay, and craigslist. They were all little guys at one time.

[amiga92570]

What is this Amiga Arena that your talking about?   Lets look at all three Amiga-like OSs, AROS, MOS, and OS4.  All three use atleast AMD gfx driver's and some use drivers for nVidia and Intel.  You got a garage company that can roll out GFX cores that are above what the three above gfx chip guys are producing currently?  I'm all ears about that one.  Lets talk about CPUs with Intel, AMD plus IBM and Motorola, what garage company is cranking out CPUs that are next generation compared to what their current generations are?  Again, I'm all ears about that as well.

My point is that no garage company is going to be able to pull ahead of what those giants are spending on yearly R&D budgets.

Ok, good point on GFX chips although that was not the point of the discussion I responded to. But most all companies manufacturing pc boards and systems use chips that are available to anyone. My observation was to your point regarding Amiga related hardware specifically X1000 and software which was being discussed. Nvidia, ATI, and Intel are not competing for amiga market share, but anyone can surely buy and use their chips and video boards. Drivers are created by individuals. So yes, in the Amiga world the "Little guy can compete".

[amiga92570]

Unless someone comes up with a killer app on the X1000 that is not available on the PC, I will definitely not buy one. I have plenty of classics to play with just to get my old time fix.