I consider any of the Amiga's produced by Commodore as the real deal. Mainly because of the hardware similarity (processor & custom chipset evolution) and backwards software compatibility (to a degree).
The A1 and Peg are a form of 'AmigaOS compatibles' that are hardware independant from the classic Amigas.
Maybe if Commodore was still around and had gone down the path of PPC (RTG) like the A1 & Peg a few years ago we wouldn't be having this discussion now.