So what happened to these new Amigas?

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HopperJF wrote:

suggested retail price of $1498.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor

Seriously, who on Earth would pay that anyway.

Yhea, I think the whole competing with modern existing PCs is a huge mistake, you could get a nice Mac for that much.

I really don't know what they hope to accomplish, it is painfully obvious it will take mountains of capital to successful launch a new hardware platform in the modern computer market.

Companies do make profits off making clones of classic game systems some even adding extra features that the original system didn't have. Maybe it just me but I think this probably would be a far more logical place to start, creating a cheaper system that mostly competes with souped-up classic Amigas then modern PCs.  Yes people would moan about it being weak but odds are more people would actually buy them.

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danwood wrote:
I agree they'd be mad to come up with high-end propriety hardware in this age.

However, a great new Amiga that runs on PC hardware, and a great new version of Amiga Os could be a hit!
But why develop your own motherboards, chips etc. when you can get them off the shelf for pennies?

It worked fine for Apple, running on x86 architecture.

Well the Nintendo Wii only has a 729MHz Broadway PPC, so the PPC 600MHz used in the PegasosPPC and AmigaOne was not a bad speed for a hobbyist machine, by now it should be fairly cheap to manufacture and in a Amiga 1200 type case it probably be a decent alternative to the class Amiga hardware if in decent quantity at a decent price.

Also Apple does make its own boards, it just switched from using PPC to Intel.