@trekiej
I'm not here to fight with anyone. We all have our own opinions. I think there are many good solutions available for the Amiga user. And I feel they are equally valid.
Some years ago I chose to go the OS4 route. The following are my opinions based on my actual experiences. IMHO, OS4.1 is worthy of the Amiga name, and a worthy successor to my old system. It is not the only worthy successor.
I went straight from a Commodore Amiga 2000HD running AmigaOS 3.1 to a MicroA1 running an early pre-release version of AmigaOS 4.0 called update 1.
As soon as I powered up my new system, I was able to use it. OS4 was familiar and yet it was new. I had that "amiga feeling" again like when my A2000 was new. All the concepts were there with more colour and eye candy than I had on my old machine. The major differences for me were the keyboard and no floppy disk.
At that time, the price of entry was high, approx $1039 Canadian dollars plus tax and shipping, just for the motherboard bundled with an OS4 CD. I purchased a new case and power supply and DVD-ROM drive locally, and used a spare keyboard, mouse, hard drive and monitor.
That was 4 years 11 months ago and I have seen lots of upgrades in the OS since that time. Now I am running AmigaOS 4.1.
I use a mixture of 68K programs and PPC programs.
Final Writer 97, KingCON, IBrowse, PPaint, TVPaint, Real3D, MicroRexx, AWebPPC, OWB 3.20, NetSurf 3.0, AmigaAMP, TuneNet, WarpView, DVPlayer, WookieChat, SimpleMail, YAM.
My main focus is web browsing and that is why I use several web browsers.
I am also interested in trying out newer programs like OWB, NetSurf and Cinnamon Writer.
I also have the AmigaOS4PPC version of E-UAE to run a few really old programs which require AmigaOS 3.1.
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redfox
