Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)

[zylesea]

tonyyeb wrote:
Come on. You realise the mass production nature of Macs and PCs cannot compare to the low production of SAM boards. Plus Macs and PCs are the same technology now and SAM isn't like either. It has taken a lot to produce the SAM board where as Apple can use existing tech and make them into Macs very easily.

IIRC the Sam is expensive by design: A many layer pcb (8 or 10 layers IIRC)) and expensive parts (e.g. the M9 chip). Technically the Sam might be okay, but market wise I'd say it isn't a big hit.
My estimation is sales in the some hundrets. At least I won't buy one.

[CLS2086]

Good resume Mikey_C

[Nostalgiac]

just - to - bleeping - expensive....

come on.. this is not the 1980's

Tom UK

[JuvUK]

ummm did I miss the official pricing? where does it say what it'll cost? could someone post the link to the offical cost please?
 thanks, JuvUK

[tonyyeb]

No costs yet. People making assumptions based on current pricing.

[dammy]

Just to warn you all, that if you're humming and harring about whether to get one or not, consider this...

Court Case.
If the SAM hasn't got Amiga inc's blessing (I doubt this), and Hyperion lose the court case, the plug may be pulled on the SAM and we may have to wait a loooong time while we wait for Amiga inc to introduce new hardware (if they ever do, after all, OS5 is out there already remember?).

Of course, if Hyperion win or it has Amiga inc's blessing, we have nothing to worry about. But personally, I wouldn't gamble on it.

I don't have any insider info on this, if I did, I probably wouldn't be able to post my thoughts on this.

EDIT - What i'm trying to say is Don't wait, or you may miss out.

This means either AI and Hyperion are doing well in the negotiations or doing very poorly.  I don't see anything of this on Amiga.com site which could mean two things:  1. They suck at maintaining amiga.com site but agreed for Hyperion to go ahead with it. 2. Hyperion is doing a "in your face" which is a positively guarantee of making friends and creating new found influence with AI, not.

Dammy

[Fester]

I have to pinch myself. I never thought I'd see the day. This is great news.

[hooligan]

Holy moly, €546 for an very outdated mobo. I know producing quantities aint that big, but at these prices they shouldn't have even produced a prototype. Hopefully Amigans have deep pockets, otherwise the sales will be total fiasco.

[tonyyeb]

hooligan wrote:
Holy moly, €546 for an very outdated mobo.

Where have you got that price from???

/Looks at ACube website and sees €332.

[amigakit]

Acube have discontiued the 533Mhz version (at 332 EUROS) - it is sold out and not available any longer

[tonyyeb]

amigakit wrote:
Acube have discontiued the 533Mhz version (at 332 EUROS) - it is sold out and not available any longer

They need to update their web site then.

[ferrellsl]

@hooligan

Careful dude!  I got flamed all over the place on AmigaWorld.net for pointing out how overpriced and underpowered a SAM440ep board is.

[Vlabguy1]

AmigaKit,

Just wondering when, only onboard graphics?  Are you going to be selling
"systems" ..ie case, ps, kb, cd drive etc?

If onboard only graphics.what are the specs?


Thanks
Rich
ny

[amigakit]

Systems are coming shortly- motherboard is here:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=840

Graphics are ATI Radeon M9 64Mb

[Steril707]

Well, it has always been a little bit more expensive to have a special taste, isn't it ...

Well, isn't that what the Amiga is all about these days? Or what's left of it?

So, why complain?

[cv643d]

Wow..  ~650 euro (incl 4.1). I was focused on ordering the 533MHz version tonight, too bad it was sold out. Somebody tell Acube to make more 330 euro Sams  :-)