AROS on Intel is the solution, cheap hardware, spoiled for choice of peripherals. If there was a way that AROS could use MS Windows drivers...
ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.
ReactOSAll we need to do is add ReactOS source code to Aros and we will have support for both windows applications and device drivers.