Supposedly the Nintendo Revolution will include a multi-core G5. Hence G5's will be around for another 5 years...
You mean a custom-designed, system-on-a-chip based on the PPC.
But peering into my crystal ball I see an Amigaless future ... personally I think the platform is going to fail (again), it was nice but now it just doesn't have anything at all that makes it standout or give it an edge, just a rehash of ideas that are already out in the world. Major innovation required.
Exactly. The CPU doesn't matter in my opinion, as the software is just too far underdeveloped.
Thus, the ultimate irony: the Amiga was made famous for its custom chips, but Amigans today waste all their time with idiotic x86 vs PPC flamewars. A CPU alone doesn't make a system.
So long as I have to pay $600-800 for a largely outdated "Amiga" that is blown away by a $200 PC and comes with an OS that is based on technology several years old, I'm going to buy a PC. Windows is frustrating, but not enough to force me to pay obscene amounts of money and deal with hardly any real software. A community of a few thousand people is not going to produce any meaningful software except for millions of Linux ports, which alreay run on every other system out there.
Amiga should have done what Apple did. Use an existing OS and built a new Workbench. Why not? It's not like Amiga is smart enough to use revolutionary, non-UNIX techniques like transparrent persistence, anyway.
Also, nobody really gives a damn to make a programmer's life easier, except for the virtual machine platforms like Java. Java didn't become popular because it's fast and bug free, you know. We need good tools, not a PPC.
