How about installing it to a USB flash card? No problem! Then you can take your x86 Amiga OS setup with you anywhere you go. Plug it into the display laptops and netbooks at the shops, boot up into Aros, unplug and go to the next shop. Leave Amiga on everything.
Guerilla tactics...I like it
All you need to do is make a youtube video of AROS doing the following...
Running MSN/Live messenger and chatting (preferably with video chat)
Loading and updating someones Facebook page on the included browser.
Playing various music file formats like MP3/FLAC
Playing AVI (XVID/DIVX codecs) output to the usual 700mb per movie/350mb per 45minute TV show.
Downloading something via a Bittorrent client for P2P stuff.
Transferring a JPEG from a digital camera to the computer and then printing it.
(editing pics would be a nice bonus also)
And you know what, the above counts for 95% of PC/Laptop users needs today. Very few people do anything more than the above. That would really wake people up as to just how irrelevant buying an OS like Win7/OS X is in this day and age. If you can hammer home an advantage about reliability/speed/efficient use of CPU then even better.
(obviously if something above there is not possible then it's probably coming soon)
To the question at hand....if you mean a port of OS4 for x86 then that would also be nice yes. I do actually like OS4 but the hardware is either scarce/no longer produced or just not very fast in CPU terms compared to costs of various Intel CPUs.
THIS is what Amiga Inc should have focussed on, at the very least as a side project, and then taking it from their to offer a branded Amiga computer experience with this bespoke OS.
It never hurt Apple going from PPC to x86 and I don't think any users left Apple userdom in disgust over having Intel hardware.....had Commodore jumped from 680x0 to x86 I think it may have worked out a lot better for them instead of floundering over PPC stuff. Some people laughed or were horrified at the mere suggestion, but x86 CPU <> Windows & DOS and x86 <> no custom chips allowed on new Amigas, People didn't realise this at the time. and few people could see past their hate for Microsoft to realise the eventual good points of the other (ie x86 was king of the price/performance ratio due to economies of scale...and Commodore would have been buying a hell of a lot more CPUs than Apple in mid 90s had they remained alive long enough to make it happen).
A CPU is just a CPU....but it's a bit late for 'Amiga' as a bespoke computer, unless someone with the level of cash of say Google wanted to do something. Chrome OS is laughable....what a waste of money and customer loyalty that will be.
