I am trying... -really, really hard- not to say anything negative... I really am (believe me) 
So don't man, we'll never have another jump the same as the classic Amigas again but this is certainly something different than a plain jane PC or Mac motherboard. ;^)
But if you somehow could implement an x86 core on the X-chip? Then you could run a Wine-like application in AmigaOS PPC "built on the true sources of the only Workbench source", you would be able to run quite a lot of apps then (that was actually one of my main reasons for wanting AmigaOS ported to x86, you would somehow probably be able to run Windows apps such as on the Mac with Paralells).
If I want to run Windows software I'll use a Windows computer, they are cheap enough now. Although, PCIe bridegboard anyone? AMD chips are cheap enough to put a whole system on a card. ;^)
I do agree that ultimately it would seem to make sense to work towards porting AmigaOS to the x64 processor line. (AMD/Intel) This new board does offer us a good option for running AmigaOS as it stands now and it will be sold as a complete computer again.
That's real progress, yes - it's been far too long but I for one am excited to see a company trying to bring some new ideas to the table and it will be great to see my beloved OS back on a commercially available computer. I don't think we really know what the programmable chip will be good for, there have always been creative people in the Amiga community. I'm interested to see what they come up with.
Since the Xorro slot allows you to add up to 254 more of the programmable chips, it could be really interesting. 8^)
