Simple, it's the machines made by Commodore and Escom. The ones that say 'Amiga' on them. They usually come with OCS, ECS or AGA and a CPU from the 68000 family.
Disclaimer: I have nothing against AOS4 machines.
No. You are wrong. You are mentioning or defining something based on an outdated hardware that had the company remained active and not bankrupt would be a complete different hardware and you would define it on that hardware.
Since Commodore is finished...Hyperion and Acube and other companies united to continue what Commodore would have continued anyways...migrate from 68k hardware base same hardware base used by Mac mind you...into PPC which again same hardware
WAS used by Mac. Bare in mind, had Commodore remained active Amiga would still have died because Commodore was moving from Amiga to PC anyways....
....so it is better that Commodore did die at least AmigaOS remains active had it not died.
That is one to consider. What I would have preferred though that they did like the Mac and skipped PPC and go x86 as Mac have did and still made it a custom hardware that only run OS 4.1. Forget that I want to install OS OS 4.1 beside Windows arguement...my idea that had they skipped PPC and did a custom x86 that cost for manufacturing of expensive CPU which ranges anywhere from 600 to 1000 per CPU would drop the price of the computer from say 3300 to 2300. Bare in mind even modern consoles are going through this route for reason of cost efficiency and easy programming. A CPU IS A CPU....no matter what type of CPU you go...be it AMD, Intel, PPC, 68k, 6502, whatever it is...they all do one and same thing...calculation and execution...it is not like 68k sings a song and AMD dances and Intel feed you....they all do the same thing....calculate...math...etc.
I mean they can still make the motherboard so custom made that it only RUNS OS4.1 if they want to go this far, and they can even install into the motherboard a default kickstart if there are no HD you see the kickstart boot screen and you can run OS 4.1 directly and update kickstart on the HD...they can give you back that feeling you had with classical Amiga if they wanted too. I mean if they saved 1000 dollars on CPU cost by going x86...they would put 300 dollars on that and make the kickstart hardware based as will and installed into the motherboard and can be replaced by the HD kickstart version as patches. No problem.
Bare in mind a $2300 computer is still expensive but more affordable for me and not less painful than say $3300. They could cut on certain hardware features that are not usable or needed to cut down prices even more and can drop it down to $1,500. Now if you tell me this X1000 is being modified to have x86 CPU which cut down price of CPU from 600 to 1000 and we save another 800 dollars on features of motherboards that are not used at all now...but still maintain expandability we have saved $1,800 and the Amiga NG motherboard is 100% customizable that it cannot run windows, DOS, etc even if the CPU is x86 and it is only designed to run OS4.1: $3300-$1800=$1,500 making the price of the machine affordable I can sell my Amiga 4000D in a heart beat for 900 thus the only difference left 600...if I squeezed my Amiga 500 for 100...for 500 bucks difference I can save up in a month and buy me an x1000 now.
Tell me I am dreaming....
