The need for "Modern PCs"

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Basically everything I do except VST-based music production could be done on my 1GHz TiBook without any real trouble; the only real reason it's not is because I prefer Windows XP to Mac OS X. YouTube is balky on anything above 240p, but eh, it's not that essential. Haven't made any real attempts at MorphOS yet, but who knows, that might fit the bill.

I prefer Mac OSX; it has no stupid task bar, it has a menu bar at the top of the screen where I expect it and the close gadget is in the correct corner of the windows... Also my disks/USB drives appear on the desktop when I plug them in and finally, windows don't autorise to the top when I just want to drag them around...

Put simply, it has the Amiga like behaviours I like x

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I personally hate all the things you mentioned.

Really? I was just listing the Amiga like behaviour that one finds in MacOS X and not in Windows... Was AmigaOS really such a pain for you?

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That's quite a bit of a stretch. Tablets use one of a handful of prefabbed CPU/GPU solutions; it's nothing like the Amiga, where the OS and the hardware were designed for each other.

To be fair to Apple, they do design their own silicon (their A series application processors) and operating system...

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Yeah, that's true - though do you know whether they did any design work on the non-CPU components, or are they just synthesizing a system out of other people's parts?

As far as is publicly known, Apple hand designed the CPU and integrated 4 PowerVR GPU cores on to a single chip connected via a custom designed bus...

I don't see that as much different to the Amiga, where the engineers hand designed the "GPU" and integrated it into a single system with a Motorola CPU