The problem I had when it was announced that the Mac was heading onto Intel is that it's the obvious writing on the wall.
Do you know how much it costs and the time it takes to churn out your own specialized motherboard and chipset etc? It costs a lot. I was suprised when the AmigaOne made it to production even for the time it had.
The point people need to understand from the fact that they moved the Amiga from 68K to powerPC is that at this point the underlying hardware really doesn't matter as it's a superset of the original amiga's capability anyway. I am processor and instruction set agnostic anymore. Whatever works the fastest and cheaply is available. Mostly because anything out there now can emulate anything Past available with decent enough speed.
The community needs to stop and smell the roses and realize that the concepts of the Amiga are still with us long after the original platforms death and people like em enough to carry them over to x86 and PPC and even ARM..
So in this case the platform has been VERY successful and continues to be despite company after company's effort to market the technology unsuccessfully. It's the community it's the standards basis for the technology and it's ulitmately the people that are using it that are carrying it forward and that will continue into whatever hardware dominates the scene into the foreseeable future.
I actually prefer AROS on an Intel box to the other PowerPC based implementations that I have seen. All saying they "improved" on the base 3.1 system that commodore produced. Who would have thought when Commodore died that we'd still be talking about this today..
The point I am making about Aros is it's an outgrowth of the community that's community supported and that stands taller than any commercial firm could. It's the same kinda movement that made open source systems like Linux so interesting and available. It's time for the community to get behind this effort and stop worrying about motherboards that can't be custom made cheap enough..
