> Well strangely enough i went from PC MAME to xbox MAME and never looked back
If you "looked back", you'd see better graphics and sound and fewer bugs for a lot of classic games. We've done a lot of improvements to games since 0.84.
And if you looked forward, you'd see that a Gigabyte BRIX will run modern MAME at full framerate on your TV with far lower noise, heat, and general hassle than an Xbox. It's also about the size of a DVD case, which is much nicer than the Xbox.