I have been following the Amiga scene since I converted to windows years ago. And I had just very good memories about this platform. And a few day ago I bougt a second hand a4000/030 with 6mb ram and a slow old IDE hd. I installed OS 3.1 and some progs. And I must say it still flyes. It boots in 5 seconds, thats how long a wintel machine uses to fight its way throug bios.
My Amiga has a 100mb boot partition, and 2gb total disk. With windows or Linux I would not use this hd at all. It´s to slow and to small. For my Amiga it´s perfect.
As Amiga OS 4 is based on OS 3.1 I belive that It does not grow to GBs in the convertion. And since I get by with 6mb ram on OS3.1, 128mb will be enough (If not much) for OS4.0. I personaly have not run win2k or a linux desktop with less than 256 mb ram with pleasure.
OS4 is the potential beginning of somethimng new and great. Amiga want to port it to diffrent hardware. Just imagine how cheap and fun an amiga powered mp3 player/pda/cellular phone with workbench could be.
PS: AmigaOne will run linux, and it uses less power than Intel/amd (less heat=less noise from fans, and less power=smaller electrical bills
