Raspberry Pi

[Iggy]

Personally, if its ARM based, I favor an A9 or A15.
The faster the better (and the more cores the better).

[Iggy]

I've been keeping an eye one FS-UAE, as soon as they get OpenGL ES support it sould run at a pretty decent speed on the Raspberry Pi, certainly good enough for A500 emu.

Note: the Raspberry Pi only comes in two flavours... A 256Meg one and a 512Meg one... Both are overclockable, but the 512Meg memory chips seem more tolerant of the higher clock speeds. I run my 512Meg Pi at 1.1Ghz and my 256 Pi at 900Mhz

And the A9 boards I've been looking at already run SoftGL.
Not to mention that they run 600 MHz faster (with an already better processor core(s)  - four of them to be exact), before overclocking.
And it has a more powerful four core GPU, four times the memory, and according to Pascal it should be able to run Aeros.

Starting at about $50 more than the Pi.

Also, I'm curious, how well can a Pi handle XBMC?

[Iggy]

The A series ARM chips are very nice, but nothing come close to the Pi in terms of price.

XBMC works a treat on the Pi, the graphics core is actually very very powerful

That is cool.
A media center system for under $40.
I've tried using some of the VIA Arm11 based SOC based products, but their weak point was definitely the GPU.

And I can't believe you're using so little power.

[Iggy]

Raspberry pi is horribly underpowered for Amiga emulation. I found that it struggled to emulate 8 bit systems. A lot of the emulators are based on older versions with less accurate sound and such to deal with the slower CPU
 
I would suggest OUYA its much more capable for emulation. Every emulator I have tried so far from the market are spot-on, and seem full speed with good sound. There are no Amiga emulators in the market but I can try and side load one from my S3. I'm sure there will be an official one sooner than later...
 
Also, don't believe the negative hype about the controller, its not bad at all. People make it sound like as something that came from dealextreme.

OUYA? huh?
That one slipped below my radar.
Not bad.
Nice processor. Could use more memory and expansion.
Has anyone tried to run an alternate Linux OS on it?

[Iggy]

I fully agree with ChaosLord, all minor points.
I'm more concerned with the lack of an alternate OS and the 1 MB of memory.

[Iggy]

The OUYA is substantially faster than my US S3, however the international galaxy S3 is more powerful than the one for the USA market.

I think performance wise I read that the RPi is about the same as the original Xbox. I'm guessing OUYA is like 50% of a 360 or PS3

Isn't there more than one version of the S4?
Which is the graph comparing?