Emulation, why not

[derringer3]

You just late about 10-12 years. Currently there is no way to "put back amiga on the map".

Reasons? Listen, in my shop i sell daily a lot of pc wich is under $250~300. It's contains a 3GHz cpu 256-512 ram, hdd, dvd writer,case,mouse&keyboard, vga card. These crappy machines can easily play movies,run almost the newest 3d games, realtime cristal-clear audio apps, etc, so more than an amiga can offer nowadays.

Now try this on an amiga. I built almost an ultimately classic amiga for myself because i love this machines, from the first time i hear/see her. But for serious business it is out of match. Who can buy a machine which is expensive than others, but offer less than the others? No one. Only way if you are the chairman of microsoft. Then you can do that. But if you will be that person you will be seriously build your machine (xbox) than you continue someone elses work.

Of course i will buy OS4, and if it ever be a new hardware for classic. Maybe a new amiga if it is offer some benefits for the pc or others. I want to see the amiga comeback, but i think it have no resons. And now the amiga community is no more million of people like in mid '90. Now i think its only a few thousands men hobby.

[derringer3]

@Starke:

Amiga comeback is only possible with a big company standing behind it. Not an offshore company which is don't do anything for years. So pumping money into ainc is such a waste. Hyperion is an other story. They have some fresh air. But in the view of an ordinary end user it is pointless.
That was one of the things why amiga continously converging to zero since the bankrupt of commodore. If Samsung, HP or other company had been bought amiga in '94-'95, then today it world will be very different. But simply this not happened.

If you have that big company behind the name of amiga then you have to find a target market. For example xbox,ps3 is for gamers, linux for servers and young people who don't want to use some lame ms software.
It's hard to find. I will be some ideas for example security, but i think i'm not that men who one day will buy amiga inc. (or mybe i will so thats why i not explain this here :-D  )
Years ago here in Hungary there were many little tv network/cable tv provider company which're use amiga for its main information channel. (i think with scala of course) You should see somtimes Black screen whit red gurus when changing the channel of your tv to the provider's info channel.
But today a pc can do easily too, and there were no new amiga. So some of this went wrong, and because there is no new amiga solution, a pc replaced it.

So conclusion:

New amiga will win if its price is beat anything in the market. (hard to happen with the known sale strategy of ps3 or xbox - the hardware is sell with minus, while they get plus on software sales.)
Or a new amiga could have one or more unique feature. (I don't think ramdsik or other things, i think for amiga will be unique in security solution, or composing music, or playing games (ohh the good old years), or desktop publishing, or just doing your everyday work. But it NEEDS one at least.