One problem with the Amiga is that the hardware hasn't really progressed over the last lot of years. OK there are loads of addon boards to help with this but in general the basic Amiga hasn't changed cause the companies died.
If you take the PC market, its been progressing nicely with updates across the range of hardware. A modern PC will not run software of 10years ago but this isn't seen as a problem as the hardware and software have both progressed together.
Since this hasn't happened with the amiga, if a new Amiga 74000 was to be released with new spanking 2ghz cpu 4gb ram, 3tb hd etc i.e. greatly faster than what we all currently have then I think it would be in no way compatible with current software as the software is written around the hardware. This is proven in games were you add your accelerator board and the game doubles in speed. (same with old DOS games, you try wing commander on a modern pc) the games were written to the hardware. If the hardware is updated and even if they ran they would not be playable without patching of some sort. Applications would be that much of a problem as they can be updated easy enough but they would all need to be new versions and wouldn't be backwards compatible. But lets face it that the Amiga is remembered alot for its classic games (or I remember it that way) which would in no way work.
I think there is to much of a technology gap now for the Amiga to come back rocking the world again. Just gotta wonder how many years it will be before the last Amiga mobo finally dies.
Not so sure all that makes sence but you know what I mean.
