Some notes:
Congratulations, even numbers aren`t exceedingly high, they show MorphOS team ability to survive in times left with no hardware company beneath. It would be natural to seek good, reliable and widespread hardware and Macs were great choice. For many reasons, from people simply still having them, to reliable and well designed hardware for its times.
On its price: Its great users can try it and then buy it. However you :should have a boxed one, with manual and a bit preconfigured for the machine (even its seen as weakness :-) - SAM 460 port could be first one for team to do so?
That will give presentable MOS product as such - not just Amigan geek thing. SAM 460 is not bad platform at all, limited in expandability but yet quite modern, quiet and fast for its class. How much SAM 460 Lite based system will cost depends on user and doesn`t have to be 1000 euros, specially if you do have most of components at you home.
Having cheaper Acube products needs only higher volumes - something MOS can contribute
(hopefully not only in case Macs or Pegs die?) or eventually introducing some dual core
high end replacement (like it was speculated several times) that would bring SAM 460
as total OS4 low end, effectively replacing 440 (kind of what Flex did to integrated EP niodel).
Eventually it might become only cheaper, it can hardly be more expensive (for end users).
It will end blue - red war in nice fashion, OS4 port for Peg2 did.
Enable people to use both if they want. In such regards until x86 or ARM transition is done also SAM 440 (not to hard to derive from SAM 460 port since CPU is same) and even X1000 should be kept as viable targets.
Even those systems are expensive, they already have some customers (250 OS4 users) that could be added, and offer PCI-E, SATA and other modern standards often beyond Mac and there aren`t 2005 performers. Test declassifying SAM 440/460 and X1000 to Macs in CPU performance clearly show way better performance in memory and disk drive transfers, as well as there is PCI-E as expansion that offers unlimited possibility to make drivers you could use later on in transition.
Not everywhere like in US PPC Macs are widespread, offered a lot and thus low priced. At least in East Europe there way few users (I kind of have seen them twice in life) and they still cost quite a lot. Pegs are history and Efika simply ins`t it.
Hope MorphOS can also have a great future, even its not official, nor has hardware vendor behind. In such battle, even OS4 users are somewhat allies that do know what do you talk about :-)
Hmmm ... which will come first (or ever?) MorphOS 4 or AmigaOS 5? :-)
