Well that is odd.
I thought you had a fairly negative opinion about NG systems.
Frankly, I'd tend to agree with you that ARM seems to be the truly promising ISA for these systems.
As much as I like A-eon's designs, the pricing of new PPC systems puts them out of the reach of most of us.
On the other hand, I have a quad core A9 based appliance that was really cheap and it flies.
No, I had a PegII Open Desktop Workstation and I loved it. I paid $700 for it back in 2009 direct from Bill Buck's final production run. I couldn't justify keeping it around just for the light office-use that it was performing so I finally ended up selling it on eBay in 2012 for the same price I paid for it. Talk about maintaining good resale value! You won't see that often with computers.
My only gripe with NG Amigas is with the X1000. It was designed, produced and sold years after my PegII was discontinued, but costs 500% more than my PegII. The PegII also outperforms it based on the few benchmarks numbers that I've seen. I also had licenses for MOS and OS4 and can verify that OS4 was a dog compared to MOS. On my PegII, OS4 was much slower than MOS and MOS had/has a much more polished look and feel. MOS also had better hardware support for USB. Nearly every USB device plugged in while running OS4 caused OS4 to become so unstable that it wasn't usable. I finally just stopped using OS4 and stuck with MOS exclusively.
I expect that the successor to the X1000 will also be an extremely overpriced, underpowered POS. Right now, the future of Amiga-like operating systems is with AROS. A-Eon/Hyperion will price themselves out of business if they continue down their current path. Long live AROS.