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Again you're too negative with your forcasts about eventual next Amigas after the X1000, still read what Rassilon wrote at post 454 (@Pavlor too) and you might realize that if you buy an X1000 a few months from now (not years) you might not buy the Freescale equipped X2000 not because it won't be powerful enough, but au contraire, because you will feel the X1000 is already all you need!

Software as you said it's important so let's see what we have here:

Word processing/office today:
we have PageStream (with a fully native 5.x still pending) and ABWord, Gnumeric etc.

Future:
there is OpenOffice Lite coming, and the QT port (almost finished! check Amigans.net for further news) will probably bring in Koffice too when completed (my guess).

http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/story/app/koffice/

Presentation today: Hollywood 3.0 is probably better than PP. And you can make a presentation on the X1000 and send it to a PC user where it will work directly (of course Hollywood does way more than just that).

Future: again, PP compatible presenters are present in both OOL and Koffice (Kpresenter) .

3D/Video Editing: Blender does both very well, and is feature rich (also an excellent video compositor, so much so that there is an ENTIRE BOOK about this) all we need is a faster machine to use it proficiently (ie:X1000)

WebBrowsing: this is the no brainer of the lot.
I don't think flash will survive the HTML5 revolution "as is", and probably all companies will at least provide an alternative version (to flash) along side the flash version.

Moreover Gnash is progressing ( http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6759 ) and releasing updates every 6 months. Some have criticized Gnash for not being good enough, but quite frankly, new version after new version it will eventually get somewhere (whether detractors like it or not).
As you know MuiOWB from Fab is being ported and FF4.0 too (the latter even features WebGL) so feel confindent the web is covered.

MediaPlayers: I must admit I love TuneNet. It plays any music format and handles my NetRadio channels very well (it even uses the OS notification system).
For video we have both DVPlayer and mPlayer. In order to watch super hi-res stuff it's just a matter of processing power (again the X1000 should come to the rescue).
Finally there is the very nice Amiga Media Player.

Image-Editing: in Amigaland we have an OS4 native version of ArtEffect pending (confirmed by Alinea) and of course we can use Gimp (newer verion coming too according Edgar).


Now someone will say: why buy an Amiga for Gimp when I can have that on Linux!! The problem is actually the other way around, we want our familiar Amiga environment with all of its much beloved features, and using Gimp doesn't chage that one bit.
Using Linux changes everything instead, and at that point Gimp won't matter (I would just get back to windows).

Music: I know this is your field and that you've been complaining about it. Although not announced I see a version of Audio Evolution 5.2 coming. Davy Wentzler is in very good relationship with Trevor, so I believe they will cook it up some way or another. 5.2 for Windows has been released recently ( http://www.audio-evolution.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=6 ) now with support for VST and MP3 import.
It's also a wip that will bring in more features in the future, count on it (you could even contact Davy and ask for specific features you want, he might listen, this is one of the good traits of the Amiga community).

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is: the OS is still in development new software is coming, new HW is released every year (it has been so, for quite sometime now) so the dream of using an Amiga at home without ever switching on a PC it's ahead of us.

As Rassilon wrote, as long as you can open/modify PC/Mac files, enjoy any type of media and solve your computing task in a competent and swift way, you could live your computing life on this beloved platform, without worring too much if the competition uses a different CPU (I repeat and stress that "as long" but we're getting there).

Last edited by DAX on 19-Apr-2011 at 12:46 PM.
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all amiga flavors are "toys" now. Even in the time of Commodore it was (mainly) a toy (Homecomputer), the only professional area was desktop video. So I do not know why we start throwing mud again. Live and let live and nobody should try to persuade others that his/her opinion is the only truth (thats how dictators think). We can exchange our arguments, but not on personal level. And we should accept that there are different views. But noone here should say only one direction is the way forward and everyone has to believe that (when not he/she is stupid, retro, living in the past...)