Ideas: The new Amiga. Yes, it's inevitable!

[CodeSmith]

@DavidF215

While an all-in-one keyboard design would be quite nice, it has one big flaw: I already have a perfectly functional keyboard, and I'm going to need a KVM switch anyway because I don't have room on my desk for two monitors.  So for me anyway a small box design is more practical than a pc-in-a-keyboard design.  This is btw one of the reasons why I haven't bought desktop a mac yet: I already have a monitor, thank you (the mini's not powerful enough and I don't need an 8-core monster either).

[CodeSmith]

@DavidF215

About NatAmi, the hardware wasn't licensed for the simple fact that it's 100% new; there isn't a single CBM-designed chip on the board.  The chipset is compatible based on the publicly available documentation and assorted reverse engineering techniques.  Since neither Gunnar nor Thomas worked for CBM or any subsidiary, it's a clean room design.  The "licensed copy of AmigaOS" is apparently just a few hundred boxed copies of OS3.9.  Nice and simple, no weird contracts :-)