This is just pipedream speculation since nobody makes any of the chips etc anymore.
Put an IDE and PCI, maybe a couple other things into a Minimig board, and you've got something better than A500. I never really understood what seemed to be a concern that BGA FPGA chips would be too much of a hassle to do this. I guess Natami is that, and we'll just have to wait for it.
Would I buy one? Not sure. I'll probably really want an X1000. And for some things I'd like to do, if we can't get uboot compiling to work on updates for AmigaOne XEW boards, then I'll also need to buy another Jtag kit for debugging, which is really expensive. While neat, I may pass due to expense. I have an FPGA on a PCI card with some other widgets that I'd like to tinker with porting Minimig to.
As for Natami using real CPU or softcore, I think softcore is better idea at this point. We can get enhancements that Freescale doesn't care to make, and even if it's in its own FPGA chip and the rest is in a second chip, that FPGA could be cheaper than a Freescale 060.
