Call me insane if you like but I think I want an X1000 now :)

[NovaCoder]

But as you can tell from this thread and others the fanboys are happy as about 80% of them with NG hardware do exactly like you, barely turn it on. One guy even said he just turns it on to do updates then puts it back int he closet. thats a good one.

That's very sad, all retro hardware (even the NG stuff) should be used regularly, if you don't use it (and enjoy using it!) then you might as well sell it and let someone else get some fun out of it.

My A1200 get's turned on almost every evening

I was running Elude's 'Shake Off the Dust' last night with my new full screen mode (Indivision Mrk2) and it was awesome to watch

[NovaCoder]

People decide what they do with their own money and desires. I could buy new MacPro, but picked X1000, because its most advanced Amiga like system I can have. By using very nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, many of AmigaOS shortcomings can be covered on same machine.

Each to their own of course but if you want to run Ubuntu you could get exactly the same experience (well probably an even better experience) for less money with a x86 box and an Amiga sticker.

I don't really see the point of buying an NG Amiga and then running Unix on it, I know of one X1000 owner who uses Unix almost exclusively on his X1000.

It's like they're saying that OS4 is not up to the job so you're better off with running some other OS on your OS4 machine, this seems very strange to me.

I think Commodore did something similar with the classics back-in-day when they released x86 daughter boards for the 68k computers, also very strange IMHO.

[NovaCoder]

I am not sure about your last comment. x86 emulator was presented with Amiga 1000, see Amiga Premiere video on You Tube / Amiga Forever bonus DVD. Idea was to provide acess to some mainstream apps that did not exist for Amiga - that is only similarity. Its not the OS that is not to the task, its simple lack of apps in some areas

I mean that (to me at least), it makes more sense for company to put the effort into providing the 'missing' applications so they run natively on their OS rather than building a daughter board to run their competitors OS and applications.

[NovaCoder]

Yep emulation can be lots of fun, I like to play old Spectrum and C64 games on my Classic when the mood takes me but I'm not into running a whole different OS (eg ShapeShifter) just so that I could play a port of Wolfenstein 3D or use some paint program.  It would be much better if someone went to the trouble of coding a native Amiga port so I could play that instead