I'm tired of PC's, update an A1200 or wait OS4 hardware?

[SamuraiCrow]

I have a MicroA1-c running AmigaOS 4.0 prerelease 2 but will probably sell it in favor of a PowerVixxen LT accelerator board when it comes out.  Both will run AmigaOS 4.0 but the PowerVixxen LT will be a plug-in board for the A1200 and will therefore have better backward compatability than the AmigaOne.

The Blizzard accelerator will also run AmigaOS 4.0 when it's released but it won't come bundled with it.  It might end up being cheaper to buy the PowerVixxen LT than the Blizzard + AmigaOS 4.0 and what's especially cool is the fact that the PowerVixxen LT will have on-board sound and graphics card included.  The Blizzard can get a Blizzard-Vision card for graphics but it won't be nearly as good as the PowerVixxen LT.

[SamuraiCrow]

Avoid the SE models.  They have more problems than any other kind of AmigaOne.  The XE will be ok but not as reliable as the MicroA1-c as there was a problem discovered in the design of the USB ports that was corrected in the Micro.

You're better off waiting for something new, the AmigaOne series are troublesome but the people that got the working AmigaOnes don't want to sell them.

AmigaOS 4.0 will not use the onboard 68040/060 on a Blizzard so don't worry about that.  The PowerVixxen LT won't include a 68k series processor on board for that reason (or so I've heard).

As for the Troika Amy '05, if/when it comes out, it will be stuck with the PowerPC 750 series from IBM which are the bottom of the totem-pole with regard to production capacity.  Likewise the processor won't be as upgradable as the MicroA1-c or AmigaOne XE except the graphics card won't be on-board on the Troika and therefore you can get a good GPU instead.