I was expecting this new 24bit PICs to appear. I am so happy they finaly did
They have 40MIPs performance, now that's what I call pretty fast chip (160Mhz)
I was dissapointed when I found out they will be available only in <64 TQFP package (I have to make a special TQFP->DIP header :? ).
Yes, PIC24F/H are based on DsPIC33F, core is the same but they miss DSP engine (although they still have multiply/divide HW support) which I don't need 8) . But Instruction set is pretty difficult to learn