Will, there ever be another computer like the Amiga?
I translate this to, will there ever be another computer that is so technologically superior and jaw-dropping at its time of release that it will maintain a legion(figuratively speaking) of fans 25 years later?
I think not. And if there is, it still isn't an Amiga, which is why we're on this forum.
What I would like to emphasise, perhaps at the risk of going off topic, is that it doesn't matter to me if a new Amiga isn't as technologically superior and jaw-dropping as the original.
We are living in an era of good enough computing. To me at least, everything I could think of doing is possible using, what many would call, mediocre hardware.
I have 5 computers around the house and I am still using PC hardware from 10 years ago that is still up to the task.
My two unexpanded P4 1gig PCs (circa 2000) are now used for web surfing, DVD burning, playing video on both my living room LCD TV and my theatre room projector, as well as hosting content over my wireless network. Probably not 1080p capable but I don't care.
I daily use my 1 year old netbook(1gig RAM) routinely to develop web apps, running 2 instances of VS2008, SQLServer2008, Firefox, IE and Lunascape(for webkit rendering) simultaneously. I wouldn't do that if the performance sucked.
My relatively recent PC desktop tower does the least demanding task of the lot by connecting to my my two 21 inch monitors and looking powerful. I pretty much use it to remote desktop to my other machines anyway. My wife is totally happy surfing the web on her old Celeron laptop.
Even if the X1000 provides the computing performance of a 5 year old computer or even a netbook I probably wouldn't realistically notice, as for me at least, it would be good enough. Maybe even a SAM would be acceptable, but I won't comment on that.
Honestly, if an app or a web page takes 2 seconds rather than 1 second to come up I don't care. If some CD or DVD takes twice as long to rip I probably don't care because I'll probably have that going on in the background anyway. But maybe I am the odd one out. I would say netbooks sales kinda back this proposition, and I don't think all netbook buyers are morons that don't know what they are purchasing. I'm happy with mine, and I would regard myself as a power user.