2.Restrictive hardware requirements, not only in price, but in performance and availability.
Same can be said about AmigaOS 3 and MorhpOS.
You can say it, but it isn't the truth. OS4 is the most restricted of the lot, OS3 the most flexible. OS3 can be run on various HW (old and new) and even under emulation. You can't possibly beat that for availability and price.
MorphOS hardware is a lot cheaper than OS4 HW. MorphOS supports wide variety of PowerPC Macs. These are easily available all over the globe. Typically you can get 3-4 MorphOS machines for the price of a single OS4 machine, and each of them is faster than the OS4 machine. PowerPC G4 with altivec runs circles around anything that OS4 has to offer.
Support for a Apple HW is great: You can find parts and repair for the HW pretty much everywhere locally. No need to send your machine to overseas for repair.
This being said I can see the point in not jumping the MorphOS bandwagon if you're a OS3.x user. You might be well happy with what you have. However MorphOS has the advantage of "trialware". If you (or family member or a friend) has a supported Mac you can easily bring the CD and try it out (
MorphOS Boot CD acts as a livecd if you don't proceed with
the installation). If you like what you see you can then look into going all in. If not, you didn't lose much (one CD-R).
