AmigaOne is out of my budget league

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For 1800 quid you could buy at least 3 lenovo i7 laptops....

That's a total of 12 processors in three machines.  Course the X1000 does have two, one of whichyou can actually use....

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@zylesea

Exactly, there is no compelling reason to go to OS4.1, all the Amiga software I run is classic which is happy in a classic machine or Amiga Forever (which uses the same emulator for classic that OS4.1 does).  Most of the new 4.1 apps are ports of Linux open source software.  So what do I need the Apple chip in the X1000 for?

I can program an XMOS microprocessor better using a USD99 board on a PC than I can on the X1000.  

Now what might be interesting is to pick up the abandoned PearPC code and try to make an emulator for 4.1, but I just don't have the programming skills for that....