persia wrote:
I have a Mac, I run OS X, XP, Gentoo Linux, one box, one screen, on keyboard. Intel/AMD equipment is cheap, can you say that about Amiga equipment? Stuff that you would throw out if it we're Amiga, and you pay 100s of dollarsfor it, where's the sense?
PCs gets old too, as Painkiller said. I´m replacing mine, as it is 4 years old, and still uses DDR1 memories. It is better to buy a new mobo and keep my system up to date than pay more for old memory.
My mother still uses an old PC for internet, email, Office and basic stuff. It works, but is a throw away old hardware just like the Amiga, as you said. No hope for upgrade, she will have to spend money in a new machine.
I can´t say anything about new Amiga hardware being cheap or not, as it does not exists. But I can compare with Apple, for example. Here I can buy a really nice PC for the price of a normal Mac, and without some hacking, you need a Mac to run OS X
The race condition exists, of course. We want to see a new Amiga OS (AROS/MOS or OS4) because we are Amiga fans, and computer freaks. How would you convince a normal user to use AROS instead of Windows, for example, even supposing all everyday app is available for it ?
It is hard to convince normal people to use even Linux. Apple has all the sex appeal and marketing, and Windows is almost a second name for computer today. Linux is free, and some new computers come with it to drop the price, and this is helping to gather more users.
So, why not PS3? If the main opposition to my "different hardware for advantage" is the "expensive and not available" point, why ignore a US$500 supercomputer which still is a Blue Ray and have nice games?
