What i'm curious to see is how the various PPC system emulating a real Amiga compare to the x86-based Amiga emulators. In terms of speed, flexibility and reliability. If one can get x86 boards for cheaper and run an Amiga emulator on it that's as fast or faster, then I hate to say it, but there goes a big reason to go with a PPC solution. Word that OS4.0 is kinda slow- even on a 66MHz PPC, let alone more modern PPCs... well that's just depressing.
Now if the new "Amiga" had some special hardware that gave it clear advantages over the emulations- even just a way to assist AGA compatibility or emulation, then we'd have a good reason to stick with the corporate plan.
As it stands, we have no compatible hardware (at all! neither processor nor chipset), When it comes to that point, one has to ask if there's any benefit in going with AI's plan, as opposed to say, X86 running an emulator. Sad but true. Nobody hates x86 more than me. But one has to ask where the benefit is in paying more for a system that's no faster at running existing Amiga programs than wintel running UAE or similar.
