Hi, this emulation VS real_thing topic is stunning. It's quite as comparing a babe from Playboy to a doll from Realdoll.com.
You might have advantages using emulation in both way: emulated Amigas doesn't take space (you can put the realdoll in a box when you're not using it: try this with your girlfriend); they act as like as the real thing but with some limitation and, differently from realdolls, they are cheaper than the real hardware. However, using emulation and real hardware is some way different.
There are motivations to keep our Amigas alive and other to forget about them, and use them into a PC window. Everyone will find his way. Mine is quite a compromise between my actual computing needs and cheer old "Amiga feeling", which reminds of my past when I was 20 or so: I've turned an A1200 into a USB keyboard and I use it with my PC. And when I'm not working, I fire up the AROS partition or launch Amiga Forever and I'm fine.
