My Dream new Apple computer

["Jayson Smith" <ihatespamratguynospamplease@insightbb.spamsucks.com>]

Okay, I know people have, from time to time, said "Let's build a new Apple 
II with these features!" While I have no idea if any such project would ever 
actually get done, here's my vision of a system I'd love to see.
It could emulate any Apple II system you needed at the moment, and all known 
ROMs for each of these systems would be available. It would have a built-in 
controller for 5.25 and 3.5 drives, if not some built-in disk hardware of 
its own. It would have a built-in CF reader. In my wildest dreams, it would 
have built-in Echo speech synthesizer emulation, but that's just because I'm 
blind and would find that feature useful. In any event, it would still have 
slots, so if you had an Echo or any other off-the-wall hardware you wanted 
to install, you could. It would have cassette in and out ports. Again in my 
wildest dreams, the output could be switched between mic level and line 
level. There would be as much memory as the latest and greatest GS could 
handle, possibly more, which could be used as virtual ram disks and whatnot. 
It would have serial ports that could be switched between SSC-compatible and 
GS-compatible. In any slot that wasn't being used for some mass-storage 
purpose, you could install any number of virtual disk images. That way, you 
could have, say, a DOS 3.3 system master, a ProDos master disk, GS/OS, etc. 
all at your fingertips, all part of the firmware. Speaking of which, the 
firmware would be flash upgradeable.
     Well, that probably just about does it. Now is this system ever likely 
to be built? Probably not. But it's fun to dream...
Jayson