@HotRod
Exactly my point, I wish people would stop complaining about it, and the fact its plenty fast leaves me miffed at why they insist on whining
I can understand the frustration sometimes but I agree, try and take it easy and enjoy what you have. If you look at the hardware available, AOS 4 just like MOS and AROS is light-weight and fast so I would say that it depends on what you want to do. Like I've written I would like to watch fullhd movies and my old A1 are too slow. Browsing is ok but can be on the slow side (800MHz CPU) but on the other hand OWBMUI looks pretty quick on the Pegasos 2. Except for that I'm happy with it speed wise since I don't render pictures or edit videos. For someone else this might be important (don't know if there are any video editing software available for any of the NG amigalike oses). However, if it isn't I think a second hand Pegasos II would make a nice machine. Most of the times it feels like a much faster PC.
Just making suggestions in case that's what's bothering you, trying to help.
That I could afford the A1 when in 2004 doesn't meen that I can afford the X1000 now. Not the Sam 460 either for that matter. Back then I had to choose between a Pegasos and the A1 G4 XE which was tough but I went with the A1 since the Frieden brothers had done a good impression on their mailinglist being very helpfull, friendly and trustworthy. I didn't have much to go on regarding MOS, from what I remember reading was that they caused lots of noice and trouble so that was pretty much it. I didn't know what to expect, if it would be good or bad and so on but I've been happy with it for the most part.
What I had before was a maxed out A4k that was feeling old and I was kind of tired of all the hacks and stuff.
Anyway I don't have any high hopes regarding any of the AOS solutions any more. With no new hardware for MOS in sight (don't know if there are a plan beyond porting it to Mac), AROS being open source and if the only option it seems to me it will be an OS for a very small group of people for a long time (10-20 years) untill it will get in a state where it can compete with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and with AOS we got the expensive hardware.
None of them are up to date with the big OSs so you will be limited in some way no matter what you choose to do.
Anyway, a second hand computer to try it out is what I would go for if I wanted to try it out right now. It seems to always be a buyer available if you don't like it.