my opinion, as an aros user, is amiga os should go x86.
does this mean that you have to rewrite it totally?
i think it's better eat 100 apples (100, not 1000 or 1000000 just 100) tomorrow than eating 1 apple today.
one day without eating doesn't kill anyone.
68k software compatibility? An emulator isn't enough? We're in 2010.
Just let die 80s software.
Let's imagine what sw could be created by passionate, motivate developers.
Let's imagine new worlds!
I'm a little hobbyist developer.
I write something for aros, something for windows, i like to do it.
How many of us would like to develop for aos? The majority of us.
As someone wrote, it's not the price, but what they give you for that price.
I understand that this market is little, very little.
But this market will always remain so little: prices are too high and products are not viable to common man. Let's see the truth: who buys an amiga (one) today? Only amiga lovers. Who is so insane to buy an old apple ppc to make work morphos? Only morphos lovers! Please forgive me if i'm rude and not polite in what i write, but i think morphos has a great potential and so aos4.
There'll be no "human sentient being from the planet earth" that'd buy such systems!
I recognize that without acube, aeon, hyperion and morphos team today we wouldn't talk about amiga!!
It's such their work, it's great work!
But let's look reality: Only if ppcs cpu, mboard and so on prices drop there'll be a greater market.
Why does this thing should be changed by selling x1000?
If even aeon would produce the phantomatic x500 (an underpowered version of x1000) at, let's say, half the price, be honest, would you like to buy an intel atom based machine for 1000 eur?
In all these years sam prices have halved? Why a new product should cost less if there's no profit by sellings? Research cost. It costs very much.
I think the only way is x86.
And I also know this will never be.
I'll repeat forever the same sentence: amiga was brute power at low prices.
Today amiga ones are low power at brute prices.
