I am having a hard time with the "classic Amiga" side of this argument.. I have a Commodore A1200HD at home that has an 030 processor, a big hard drive cdrom ethernet etc. While it was a great system for it's time, the only thing I used it for lately was as a terminal to convert my couple of hundred Amiga floppy disks to Amiga floppy images, so I could move all of my old sofware over to images for use with either my Windows Media Center PC with Amiga forever or my laptop also capable of running Amiga emulation. I also own a windows based smartphone and a PocketPC (which will also run UAE emulation).
As far as Amigas go I own both an A1200HD and an A3000D unit. I love the machines but they are just too slow for everyday useage. I love that I can still use the Amiga software through the emulator at many times the speed of an Amiga or an AmigaOne, and it runs most of the custom chip stuff.
The use of this library except for 2 favorite games has declined a lot. I used to be able to not to the image manipulation that I loved about the Amiga, but not the case anymore. In fact my whole environment for video, animation, 3d, and movies has moved to the pc.
My PC works like a TiVO and records all my TV shows and keeps my media (pictures, movies, mp3s) in a library that I can stream to other media devices in different rooms sort of like a jukebox. Now with my cheap but good DV movie camera I can create my own dvd's and video edit, better than I could on a high end toaster.
This all plays back on my 36" LCD HDTV and I run Amiga apps thru the emulator on it. Considering that the A1 doesn't support the Amiga chipset, this isn't a viable option for me, and I can use all of migh Hi-Def equipment with the Emulator. Heck, I can even run Amiga Inc apps (thru intent) on my smartphone.. With Windows Media Player 10, I can sync episodes of tv recorded to my computer to my phone (with automatic format conversion).
Doing all of this has made me decide not to buy an A1, because as a media machine it just doesn't keep up. Before anyone says it, my machine never crashes and I keep up to date with Anti-virus thru avast and Sunbelt's Counterspy software.
The whole thing works great and I still have the Amiga stuff that I want integrated. I can browse websites with their native look and feel and scripting built in and it's gosh darn fast because I have both machines running AMD 64.
That's my solution, and I have 2 tv tuners and can add up to 4. One is an HDTV tuner.
This all didn't cost me an arm and a leg, and I still have fully integrated Amiga capability. If there were sofware for A1 that didn't work on the classic that was UNIQUE and powerful then I'd consider the A1 more closely.
