@tomazkid

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Agree that the most important thing now is to get OS4 ready, and get some good PPC-native software running on it. It's no harm though in planning a few steps ahead on the hardware-side. But what's the use of a G5 without software that can use it to it's full potencial? Except the geek-factor

I won't argue with that reasoning, and I agree to an extent. But there is no reason to not move forward with the hardware. Think about how old even the G4 is now. By the time an Amiga G5 project meets the market, Apple may well be moving to the next processor. If Amiga is going to gain serious momentum in the long run, the hardware has to catch up.... I know that OS4 is not even out officially yet, but the hardware design has to start sooner...

Think of it like this, the hardware will take a particular cycle of time to design and develop and test. Then there is additional time required to port the required parts of OS4.X to run on the new board.... then there is beta testing both parts.... Look at how long this has all taken with the current hardware (although I understand this is the initial port and that does make it take longer).... But would you rather that they wait for another year or two just to start designing the G5 based hardware, then another 6 months to a year just to get it and it's OS4 Port available, or start planning ahead now? That doesn't mean that people should wait for the G5 version before buying a next gen Amiga... but it just gives them incentive to support the current line, knowing that there is something better in the works that will make a nice upgrade sometime down the line....