Excitement about NatAmi

[psxphill]

Most of the Amiga electronic components are 20 years old or so and held together with duck tap.

I don't have any duct tape in my amiga. Or Rawl plugs for that matter.

[psxphill]

Yeah I know when it comes to the PS3 is a quesion of debate about cores. But the 360 is 100% multicore
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware

basically the 360 has 3 of the cpu's that sony paid ibm to develop, each of which supports two simultaneous threads.

[psxphill]

I didn't realize people were still spreading this myth. Aside from sharing some banal power saving tricks, the Xenon is no more similar to the Cell than any other modern PPC chip.

How can it be a myth when it comes from the guy working for IBM?
 
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3904/processing_the_truth_an_interview_.php
 
The powerpc chip in the xenon and the cell is basically the same & it was designed for sony. Apart from the instruction set, it has nothing in common with older designs & yet they both have a lot of things in common.
 
I didn't realise that anyone didn't know this.

[psxphill]

I disagree with that view...
 
To me the main reason for the Natami is quite simple, I'd like to be able to buy a new Amiga that can run all my old software, hopefully a bit faster on things like PageStream & ImageFX, without having to scour ebay and pay ridiculous prices for an 060 board.
 
The ability to access the net would be nice but not a necessity...

If thats all you want then uae on aros on a PC is probably good enough.