What is it that windows can do, that you miss in AOS4.x? I use both on my office, and I don't miss anything in AOS4.x, but the SAM does boot into workbench in less than half the time, that my office PC uses to boot into windows.
And on top of that AOS4.x is alot more responsive than windows, not just by margins but by miles.
Well, I can't really speak for OS4 as I haven't used it (see above comments re: too damn expensive,) but do remember that your use case is not necessarily everybody else's. Personally the only thing that would keep me from using an alternative platform as a daily driver is my VSTs (and that may change in the future, as I've started to get into real hardware MIDI gear,) but lots of people are dependent on Windows or Mac-specific software for different things. I, for example, could probably get along fine with a native Amiga drawing program, but for someone who really
needs a new version of Photoshop or Illustrator for their workflow wouldn't find it so easy.
I've seen a qoupe of sam's in sweden going for about 385usd. One ep and one flex. I don't think thats an unfair price.
My point isn't so much that the price is
unfair (that's a thorny discussion that I have no intention of starting up,) but that for a lot of us there's only so much we're willing to drop on a hobby system. The only SAM boards currently in stock at Acube are $750-870, and that's for just the board and OS4. That's simply much more than I want to spend for something I'd just be playing around with, especially when I could drop a couple hundred bucks on a MorphOS license for one of the G4 Macs I got for $10 at the recycle center and have a complete working system instead.
