I have never bought x86 machines :-D But I have a laptop which I got for my work, so I use it for some of my homework too, and for networking, because I don't have a TCP stack which support PPPoE currently.
I use my Amiga mainly for programming - it's fun :-D Now that I got finally GCC installed, I think I will study some MiniGL when I find time.
I hope that the Amigas (and likes) are coming soon to the larger public audience. It would fantastic to develop for OS 4 - and MorphOS coding really isn't that different, so the programs I write may be easily adapted.
Amiga Forever!!!