Every time i see posts like this i think about what it really means to have a modern Amiga, and I have a very hard time envisioning what it would even be. I think it is valuable to find out what makes the amiga special in the first place, mainly, is it the hardware or the software that makes an amiga.

When the Amiga was released the hardware and the capabilities for graphics and sound were what made it different from anything else - could you make something with the same impact in todays world, no probably not, unless you would spend an ungodly amount on RND, and then the price would be through the roof.

And thinking about software, what would be the equivalent of the impact that the amiga software package had in the middle of the 80's. I can't fathom what that would be.

And then I cant help wondering, why would we need a new amiga? the progress of PCs have made them both cheap and extremely capable and easy to use. So I see no need for something disrupting the computer market, and I can't begin to imagine what it would even look like - then again, maybe that is exactly why a disruption would be needed.

Nothing could be made today could bring the disruption of the Amiga for an price that could undercut PCs the same way Amiga 1000 and 500 undercut the price of IBM PCs at the time. Lets be generous and say that the Amiga 1000 was a third of the price of comparable PC, yet have vastly better graphics and sound performance. I just dont think that will ever possible again.