You know as much as it hurts me to say this, as someone who knows they will never ever be as happy about computing as the day I read/watched reviews of the Amiga 1000, we wouldn't have the CPUs we have today.
Amiga died because Commodore was selling the same 8mhz bullcrap 4 years after the A1000 went on sale and not investing in R&D. Doom/Polygon games were released...PCs had byte per pixel screens...Amigas were stuck with bitplanes and slow CPU+2D custom chip assistance only...cue the 'wooo I want a PC' from discerning gamers!
However, if chipsets had been improved more than once every half decade and OS development been continued on form we probably would have had OS 4 in 2000 so god knows how great things would be OS wise. What I remember about the Amiga is it was an efficient and elegant system, and just imagine how creative you could be now if things had kept a pace with what I was doing in 1990 with my 8mb A2000 + framegrabbers....like painting with 200 frame animbrushes and composing my own scenes of Battlestar Galactica from ripped footage of recorded Videos
If you take it to its logical conclusion you would have an almighty system for manipulating sound/video/images that also happened to play games on a par with the latest consoles so...
PS3/360 quality games
Truly mind bending realtime graphics manipulations in 1080p HD
Writing music without the need to buy any expensive music
An OS that made you feel like you wanted to use the machine
Ahhh it's nice to dream now and then
