Amiga = Daphne/Agnus/Paula and NOTHING ELSE.
I find it hilarious when people say OS 4.1 running on a SAM460 is more 'Amiga' than Aros running on a DELL PC.
And even if you don't have Daphne/Agnus/Paula exactly then there is still the issue if it is 'Amiga' then why are my original Amiga games like Rocket Ranger on 3.5" as useful as coasters if you don't own a Commodore Amiga sold in the 80s and 90s?
Now that that piddling little discussion is out of the way the second point is this....i7 processors have been around for nearly 4 years now...FOUR F^$£ING YEARS so a new 'Amiga' has to have a CPU that is SUPERIOR to the 2007 i7 2.8Ghz. I don't want ARM and I don't want washing machine controller type rubbish like SAM440 EVER AGAIN MENTIONED.
A new 'Amiga' needs to cost 1/4 of the cost of a PC gaming rig (excluding monitor cost) AND run a game like Battlefield 3 IN FULL 1080/1200p DETAIL.
Do you think Sony and Microsoft had it easy when this is exactly what they had to do in 2006/2007 when it came to CPU cost? Nope they had to be very cunning in their design to keep the costs down and performance 300-400% more efficient than Wintel PC gaming boxes.
680x0 is NOT Amiga, 680x0 = ANY not PC based machine from the 80s (Mac/ST/Amiga/Next/Unix workstation etc etc) so a damp fart of a CPU base on a 1000 MHz 68000 theoretical design is not what I want.
Amiga as you know it is dead, Amiga = custom hardware and non-industry standard CPU to shat all over PC price performance. If you added a USB mouse and keyboard to a PS3/360 and they had a bespoke desktop OS that did everything XP/Vista/7 or OS X does but smoother and more responsively they you would have had a spiritual successor to the Amiga 1000. But this never happened and we are back to our non-choice of either a bloated Mac or PC crappy OS that thinks nothing of dumping terrabytes of temp files WHEN IT FEELS LIKE IT or a games console that has all the spiritual successor advantages of Amiga 1000 running the equivalent of Amiga Marble Madness/Defender of the Crown vs DOS/Mac versions BUT none of the equivalent of advantages of a more productive OS and a more creative audio visual computing experience (making samples/mod tunes/dpaint pictures/digiview images/anim brushes from 16 second realtime grabs of buck rogers/BSG etc etc)
Like I said nobody will ever do this because Nintendo has no interest in producing a non standard desktop alternative OS computer, nor does Sony, and Microsoft are busy selling you that $hit called Windows/Office to finance Xbox R&D
Nobody else has the money, and it is obvious that we are dead in the water now with nowhere to go. Unless a new machine in the next 12 months is designed costing no more than a top end PS3 AND can technically run Battlefield 3 in 1080p and maximum details settings THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL FORGET ALL THIS NEXT GENERATION AMIGA HORSE FEATHERS. ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS TODAY IS A DISGRACE TO CALL IT AN AMIGA OF ANY DESCRIPTION WHEN THE GAMES ARE WORSE AND THE OS DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FIREFOX/CHROME QUALITY BROWSER.
And unless that happens Amiga will remain a tiny fraction of the size of Apple (already a tiny fraction of the worldwide % of PCs sold) and hugely expensive and not very useful. Sure Natami and Minimig are nice but they are just a means to play top end 90s Amiga games like Quake. The world has moved on....and Amiga didn't because Commodore went bankrupt and every successive owner pillaged the IP and improved on nothing!
