I think it was a brilliant move porting to mac hardware because they are so common, so cheap and you get the added benefit of it running osx, something no acube hardware however crazy expensive can not do.
I have never been a mac fan but the powerpc hw is now cheap and nice. I suppose having spent so many years running linux, osx never excited me much. Seemed to me to be a bit nicer linux...
I have watched AOS and the hw available, I just can't justify spending so much money for such outdated old tech. a 50$ or 100$ mac is faster, and can also run osx, which is not a huge extra, but to me, having never owned an osx computer, it IS a plus...
I've been saying for awhile if they support g5 I will finally get a good g5 (maybe quad core for use with osx/final cut power pc) and finally register morphOS. Hope the bounty fills fast and they are correct in the timeframe to port to g5... That would be AWESOME. I will contribute to the bounty I suppose...