Well I am enjoying the conversation. At least the part with rational individuals anyway. The handful of yahoos arguing over their own semantics can please go away and let the adults talk.

Anyway, while I see Amigadaves point with the RPI I would much rather have a machine with more power. In a perfect world we could have a modern, inexpensive and powerful POWER processor but that seems to be more and more difficult and costly everyday.

With that in mind then I believe X86 is the way to go, though it pains me to say so.
I really look forward to taking one of my 2 year old PCs and after purchasing a few inexpensive yet SUPPORTED pieces of hardware such as sound cards and NICS and being able to use our wonderful OS.