@chuckT re:programming
you make a good point, but what programming language would you use? In the 80's BASIC was easy to learn but very slow. So if you want to write games, that's out. So then you have to learn something more complicated, and who wants that apart from those interested in programming, rather than those interested in art or animation or music. If you want to create art or animations then think how hard and time consuming it would be to program something I can do easily in Dpaint or Scala. if you want to program art and music and animations, special effects then people have been doing this on Amiga since 1985 and in large numbers: they're called "demos".
what do i want? i want a computer that puts me in control and does what i want when i want it to. AmigaOS is the closest that i have experienced. If it were ported to affordable hardware that would be enough. by affordable it doesn't have to the most ghz, GB etc. we all know a 14mhz A1200 with some fast ram is more responsive than 4 gig ram 3.0 ghz multicore monster running vista, so i couldn't care less about the specs
