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>>In terms of processors, there is no accelerator or other solution that will give the Amiga PowerPC or Pentium capabilities in terms of speed. That is FALSE. The 68060 is equal in power to a Pentium. The P6 exceeds the 060 but is not release at this time, so does not make a fair comparison. On the PPC count you are correct. A test performed at a major exposition in Germany put Lightwave on an A4000 with a 50 MHz 68060, and also on a PC with a 90 MHz Pentium. The image was rendered twice as fast on the 68060 – and although part of this is due to how the AmigaOS is a lot more efficient than Windows, the code for the 68060 was not optimized for the 060 – it was the regular 020 version. >>The Amiga, by the way, can't at this moment be upgraded to a PowerPC either. Does that mean – by your very own definition – that it's unusable? The PPC is the latest processor put in the Mac by Apple, and is found the latest machines. It is considered "top of the upgrade path" at the moment. The Amiga's top processor at the moment is the 68060, and even the little A1200 already has a 68060 accelerator available for it. I am quite certain when Escom decides which RISC processor they wish to use in future Amigas, that I WILL be able to drop it in my machine, because the documentation for my 3000 (in 1990) said my processor upgrade slot was capable not only of a 680×0 upgrade, but an upgrade to a RISC processor (any that will fit depending on how you build the card, I suppose).