HP 48GX Collector’s Edition (merged) - please don't start two threads

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My dream for a successor in the 48/49/50 line would be option 2 ... but with SysRPL, not just UserRPL. Neither DB48X nor newRPL is going there, which is sad but also understandable due to the huge additional effort.
I have dabbled with something aiming in that general direction, but it's not even at a PC-based tech demo stage and at current rate of progress (one of several hobby projects competing for my time) would take decades to reach a calculator, if ever. Moravia or SwissMicros could accelerate that timeline by making it my day job, but fat chance of that happening. (Come to think of it, any bets on Moravia hiring Claudio for newRPL?)

For the hardware I'd want neither the 48 nor the 50 keyboard, but a mashup of them - the 49/50 Enter key is a well-known complaint, but the 48's cursor keys are inferior to the 49/50, with issues like alpha-mode usability, and finding them by touch only (on the 48 they blend into the key matrix, requiring counting from a keyboard corner or a glance away from the screen to find them).
The rest of the hardware I don't care much about, as long as I get plenty of storage space, easy transfers to / from a PC (e.g. make it act as USB drive; I'm just assuming there would be a USB port because the 50g has one) and no features that require using a touchscreen (if there is one in the first place). Even the SD card is optional, though on the 50g it serves as both mass storage and easy PC link. As display I'm fine with anything from identical to the 50g to beyond the Prime and DM42 - as in, improvement is welcome but not required.