A Simple Question Really...

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The difference between an emulator and an original piece of hardware is in the mind of the owner.  Personally I like the convenience of having everything in one box, a Mac Pro.  I sometimes put UAE on the 30 inch display, sometimes on the 24, so I can use the other display to do work.  Never driver problems, never hardware issues, it all just works.  Sometimes I have AROS or Haiku in one monitor and UAE in the other.

I find I use the old hardware less and less, but I can't yet bear to part with it.  But I doubt I'd miss it, the emulation is spot on.

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Had the Amiga kept evolving it would be a computer built out of energy now now out of plastic and silicon...

Seriously, I doubt anything like the X1000 would have been built. The AMiga probably would have moved to X86, moved to a UNIX kernel, added all the features that modern OSs have and be relatively indistinguishable from OS X...

He's also incorrect... I mean what exactly was the Amiga supposed to turn into? If it had kept evolving over the last 15 years it wouldn't be unlike the upcoming X1000... probably just higher spec... The SAM and X1000 carry the legitimate version of AmigaOS and for all intents and purposes the hardware is what it basically has to be (some modern variant) it demands my support and I shall support it...

As for the posters query, I can happily say I'm completely ignorant and have no insight whatsoever

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There are those who insist it's still 1989 and haven't a clue what Windows and OS X have done over the past two decades.