Umm well for the internet generation, one thing you can do on OS4 is make sure when you reboot your machine is cleared of any crap malware/spyware/virus that may have got through. Compare this to Windows PCs where every second you are on the internet your OS is slowly killed at the mere whiff of a TCP/IP connection. Win7 is so broken (as in still hasn't fixed basic issues since XP) regarding this that I laugh my head off at so called experts who endorse Win7.
Going back to Wii + OS4...are you crazy? The Wii is a mildly breathed on Gamecube with some $150 rubbish woolly controllers and the CPU is pathetic, worse than SAM. It's a great time for non OS-specific fun technically with A/V codecs/Flash/Java. You don't need to actually own a Windows machine at all anymore, or blow your cash on those pathetic overpriced Apple jokes. If ever there was a time people wanted an alternative to Windows (and actually don't like Apple computers/OS) it is now. Rumours of IBM and OS/2 and Goolgle with their joke of an OS Chrome, which is a massive FAIL, show just how fractured the market will be. We need the equivalent of an high quality/equally price superior machine just like in the car world you don't need to have a Ford badge, you can spend the same cash and get a far superior car from Germany. Same with computers today. Nobody cares if there is a Microsoft logo on boot up, never have never will. They have it as they are trying to fix the shortcomings of the previous release of Microshit on their machine or they have no choice. Note to Apple, add a bloody second mouse button too.
All those stupid idiots at Amiga Inc had to do was ring up Sony and negotiate getting OS4 onto the PS3. Yellow Dog Linux is utter crap. So Simple. A no brainer. And they might even be here today, but they are idiots and the opportunity was lost probably for the last time to get Amiga back as a mass market machine. Hell they could have done a special white version of the PS3 with an Amiga logo for not much money at all later on...with a branded keyboard and mouse.
$300/400 for a massively powerful CPU/GPU with some exotic Blu-Ray decoding...could you really have asked for a better basis for a new Amiga in 2007? No you couldn't!
And CELL port of OS4 would be a lot quicker than x86 or x86-64bit.
Having said that X-1000 is not a mass market machine and therefore it will never be 'value for money' you have to accept that. Had AmigaONE been around in slightly bigger numbers I would have bought one of those at the start just to run OS4. It all went pear shaped when there was an OS completed but no hardware to run it on! Only the Amiga IP owners make that possible to paraphrase an old saying
