OS 4 hardware

[itix]

It frustrates me no end when people say that the Sam is horrendously over-priced.

I dont know but my Pegasos 2 G4 @ 1GHz did not cost as much as SAM.

[itix]

I just did quick a good search and came up with this page:
http://www.osnews.com/comments/5493

Check the 5th comment down, labeled " Pricing is VERY high".

Pegasos was in exactly the same boat while it was being made. Also don't forget the Sam440ep comes with the CPU, 1/2GB RAM and a graphics card.

I'm not saying the Pegasos is overpriced, I'm just saying neither are exactly cheap, but for the same reasons.

Pegasos indeed was not cheap. It was too expensive and I could not afford it. Luckily I got it for free ;-)

Btw. Pegasos I/II came with the CPU. No RAM nor gfx card but those cost nothing for Pegasos II. Pegasos I used expensive and rare registered SDRAM.

[itix]

@itix: last time pegasos2 was available at gss data, it was around 850 euro, complete system.

Yep. Expensive.

At AmigaKit complete systems:

SAM 440EP 553MHz: 700e
SAM 440EP 667MHz: 800e
SAM FLEX   733MHz: 750e

Flex is affordable but you probably would not want to go for it after Peg2.

[itix]

Well, the PegasosII G3 was 299 EUR. Add about 150-200 for hdd, case, and gfx and RAM ad hou have ended a bit below 500 EUR. About 5 years ago!

I checked via wayback machine and in 2005 you could buy Peg2/G4 complete system for 700e.

http://web.archive.org/web/20051118195558/http://www.vesalia.de/e_pegasos2.htm

But I recall there were initially higher prices, something like 500e for G3 and 700e for G4 (motherboard and CPU module only). I could not find references other than a price reduction annoucement from Genesi in 2005.