MikeB,
I am glad you are a fan of the Amiga. Seriously they were some of the best PCs of their time but they thrived not only because of gaming though gaming was a part of it. If you wanted to do anything with Video and Sound back then you got an Amiga. this isn't like apple/windows today where neither one does anythign better or faster than the other. Amigas were king of sound synthesization, video editing and playback before mac or apple really embraced it and were well worth the money.
My point the AMIGA was not just a gaming PC it far exceeded the Atari computers and far exceeded the Windows/DOS/apple boxes out there.
The PS3 does not do any of these. When I had my PS3 running I loaded Yellow Dog linux and put up a 1 gig Meg video and encoded it and than did the same on my Core 2 Duo. the PC encoded the 1 hour video to MPEG 2 in 18 minutes the PS3 35 minutes(This by the way was the purpose of the Cell in terms of Design). there are of course memory constraint issues but if their is one thing that has always taken advantage of the multi cores it is video encoding..The power isn't there.
Lest not forget the Cell only has 4 active SPE's and 1 PPE. All seven are not active and all seven will never be active. In order to increase yields early in production Sony had to nip a few SPEs from the required specs so you have 2 dead SPEs wether they work or not.
BTW it should be noted that PS3 encode time for the video is actually better than a 2.8 ghz P4. or 1.6 ghz G5 or AMD athlon 2800+
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