The configuring drivers is also a sign of life, there's new hardware and hence new drivers. That being said I don't see it that often in bog standard Windows 7 machines. The main issue with Windows 7 is somebody wants to use this piece of equipment that they bought last century and there's no Windows 7 driver. New stuff pretty much just installs and the driver is there or you load it off disk or the website.
If you want to have a viable Amiga community in a decade or two, after all of us original Amiga users are gone, then you need new equipment. PPC is a dead end, intel provides you with cheap hardware but may be harder to port the OS to. ARM is hot, there's a gazillion new tablets out there. An AmiPad seems like the most logical step towards long term survival.
