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No matter what happens with the A10 MELEs, there are a lot of very promising ARM devices in the pipe so XBMC on ARM will be the future (power-saving, cheap, small).
I'm using my Mele with Ubuntu server and it is great for a ~5W device.

For example this one could be another great platform for XBMC
(4-core+Mali400+1GB RAM) : http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/07/11/h...ent-board/

I bet there will also be a lot of cheap Tegra 3 devices soon :-)