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Personally I'd be happy if the combined Amiga-like OS's could get to the 50k user range - 1% of our heyday... It'd be enough to give us a steady stream of new applications and even some limited commercial support. It seems near impossible now, but then again so did the chance of Linux becoming a contender seem in the early 90's.

I'm completely with you their, all I would like to see is a return of say the late 90's, just enough users so that say Amiga Format could come back and World of Amiga show could return, the 50K user base could do that and be enough to substain a little niche market. A man can dream.

But any way I think the X1000 is a good next step for the OS it sets it up for the future, and as Tever points out PPC is far from dead yet, its just becoming more and more a niche market but still most likely 100 time bigger than the current Amiga market. linux isent getting much PPC support these days, so wouldn't it be great if the Amiga became the ultimate PPC Os to use for industry and developers, I mean there must be still a bit of demand and interest in PPC to continue these hardware developments, well they need an OS to power them, Amiga could be it.

Price and Performance is another thing people raise, well Price, if you think OS4 hardware is too dear and not the root to go, support Aros ( I personally will support both efforts and enjoy best of both worlds) as I already have a cheap net book that I can install aros, linux and what ever I like, but I dont have a custom built limited PPC AmigaOne system and I want one (if I can afford it).

Performance well judging by the programs and games the amiga community has current got, the x1000 should have more than enough power to run them all so why do we need more? I think the more power you give to developers the sloppier they become at making their coding efficient, look at vista compared to windows 7, some rewrites here and their and the performance is a least 30% faster on the same hardware, look at games consoles and how each year they seem to get better and better graphics and performance from the same hardware. Plus the tablet and mobile phones have faster app running on their 1Ghz devices compared to my dual core 3Ghz PC! Plus the way things are going the GPU is becoming more important than the CPU.

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