AmigaOne is out of my budget league

[zylesea]

Well, I don't have a prob with that price of the X1000 since there are alternatives available.  My 250 EUR laptop from ebay may lack a certain name but is about as fast as the X1000. Why bother with that X1000 then?

[zylesea]

Does your laptop run OS4? Of course it doesn't.

Well, no. And I don't miss it.Quite the contrary: I have a very good and pretty matured alternative amigaish OS for that machine that runs all my old 68k legacy software OS-natively as well as quite some new software. I think it's just cool. But I understand that there are some ppl who prefer OS4 - but those have to deal with the limited hardware offers. Complaining isn't leading forward though. Deal with it or look for alternatives.

[zylesea]

@Blinx123

AmigaOS 4 is my favourite platform for coding by far. The advances made to the API since 3.x are very useful, and really help. They've done some very good work under the hood that the average user doesn't see, but as a developer I definitely see.

But that's also true for AROS or MorphOS. All these systems go far beyond 3.1. I don't say OS4 is a particular bad choice, but it isn't the only choice. There are actauilly alternatives. The Amiga (in the sense of 68k Amiga by Commodore) heritage consists of OS4, MorphOS and AROS.

 I've also coded for Windows (gurrrrgggghhhh) and Android (not too bad, but a bit idiosyncratic at times - and you have to use Java). Not used iOS.

When I coded or Windows I also somehow thought it was a pain, but then again support is just brilliant. If you have a question or look for code snippets it always easy to get help. That's quite attractive, especially for the occasional programmer that I am.

[zylesea]

I've got no problem with that, choice is what it's all about. Are you using MorphOS or AROS btw? Just asking out of curiosity.

I use MorphOS (Mac mini, Powerbook and Efika). A good share of a particular OS preference is probably what you are used to. The "NG" systems aren't really new today and many of us chose a system long ago. I am using MorphOS for more than ten years now - soon it wil surpass my Amiga 68k user time (main system from 1989-2002).