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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Delta on December 02, 2011, 11:57:00 PM
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Yep, I finally did it, ordered a SAM460 from Acube a few minutes ago :)
Why? why not? In fact I sold my fully loaded A4000 in 1998 and since all I had to play with was UAE and its no fun to me... Lately I wanted to get another A4000 just for fun but its so expensive for old technology that I'd rather buy a brand new product using "modern" hardware.
Already have a case, HDD and compatible SATA card waiting for the motherboard to arrive.
I'll make sure to let everybody here know when I'll have it running.
cheers!
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Very cool!
That's one I have yet to acquire!
Niiiiiice ;)
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congrats & welcome to the club:)..hopefully AmigaOS4.2 will be here soon
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Got a new job I like and ordered a sam...its what I call a "good week" :)
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Congrats on your decision to get involved again. From what I have seen, the SAM460 is capable of running OS4 quite nicely at a decent speed. It should provide a good OS4 experience for you to get back into the Amiga community with.
I prefer MorphOS to OS4, but I have just recently decided to join the OS4 users in a big way with my order of the AmigaOne X1000 "First Contact" system from AmigaKit.
You should get your SAM460 well before Christmas, but I may have to wait a few weeks longer. I look forward to your report of how you like your SAM 460 when it arrives.
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According to Acube I had to order it this week to make sure its here for christmas. Being a while since I listened to my xmas mp3 list on AmigaAmp ;)
I admire MorphOS for what it does and what it became but its just not what Amiga stands for me. I hope OS4 will have a long life and that we'll see more modern machines. The X1000 would have been my #1 choice but my budget is limited to about $1200 espescially that I don't think I would do much more with the X1000 because of the "strict" available software situation.
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According to Acube I had to order it this week to make sure its here for christmas. Being a while since I listened to my xmas mp3 list on AmigaAmp ;)
I admire MorphOS for what it does and what it became but its just not what Amiga stands for me. I hope OS4 will have a long life and that we'll see more modern machines. The X1000 would have been my #1 choice but my budget is limited to about $1200 espescially that I don't think I would do much more with the X1000 because of the "strict" available software situation.
I did not mean to discount or lessen my congratulations to you by including any references to MorphOS, or to my purchase of the X1000 in my previous post. MorphOS on Mac, or Pegasos, or Efika hardware, and OS4 on the X1000 are not for everyone. I think you will be very happy with your SAM 460 when it arrives. I also hope that if the opportunity ever presents itself to you, you will take the time to experience MorphOS more fully someday. It is different, but for me and for many others, it is every bit as much an Amiga as any other system. I don't write this to stir up anyone, or try to change anyone's mind. Just my own experience that I am relaying and my desire to have all Amiga users to keep an open mind to all of the Amiga experiences that are available today.
Enjoy your new SAM 460 and OS4.x, but don't close your mind to other things out there. It does not have to place you inside a group who hates other choices, just because you prefer one over the other. (I am not saying that ALL OS4 users hate MorphOS, or any of the other alternative choices, but a small few do. There are bad apples on all sides always, and the MorphOS group of users has it's share too. I also realize that I am treading on thin ice and might invite these "Bad Apples" from any side to jump into this thread to show their stupidity, but hope that my comments will be taken in the spirit they are offered).
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Don't worry I didn't perceived your comments as discrediting OS4. I personally don't care much for this supposed war. OS4 will feel like wearing a good ol' comfy pair of wool socks :)
I considered getting a compatible mac with Morphos for a little while (and might do later this year) but I wanted to show my support to Acube and Hyperion as well as getting back the fun of using an Amiga.
For many years I have used or owned all the windows versions since 3.1, a couple of MacOS machines and many Linux flavors but none has ever re-ignited that little "flame in my eyes" that I had with my 4000.
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Let me know how you like it once you get it - been debating upgrading to a 460 is I can find someone willing to pay a decent amount for my 440ep, heh. Good to see more Canucks buying there modern day machines, I'm in AB myself.
Not that I need much more power than my 440 offers, but in typical guy form, the more horsepower the better, lol. Been getting into Blender more lately, so the extra beef of the 460 would sure help.
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cool. Where do you live in QC? want to see it (in action) :)
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@maw2k
I'm in Montreal and i'll surely bring it to an event in the area (if any) to share my joy ;)
@duce
I'll be glad to run some benchmarks for you
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Just wondering... do you get sound with the 460 and the current build of OS4.1? I am asking because somewhere I read that sound drivers were not complete yet. I hope I'm wrong though :)
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@Nostromo
there is a beta one: http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=driver/audio/sm502_audio.lha
@Delta
its a small world, I had never believed that I'm surrounded from Amigas here in the Montreal area :) ...send me a msg when its there, I can come with a 6pack of beer :)
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maw2k - Ah that's good :) hopefully it works fine!
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unfortunately it does not, but it's just the beta version. Lets see how the final will do.
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@Delta
:cool: Hope it works well for you.
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redfox
Edmonton, AB
Canada
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Congratulations. I've thought about that various times and the price and lack of CPU upgrades / no AltiVec have always kept me down.
PCIe is a big plus though.
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unfortunately it does not, but it's just the beta version. Lets see how the final will do.
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Any word when they're fixing it?
I'm interested in getting a sam machine but the price is over the top :/
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Any word when they're fixing it?
I'm interested in getting a sam machine but the price is over the top :/
Welcome to the club i have A AmigaOne 500 from acube and its great. minor the sound driver but its better then nothing.
for the pricing its not over the top i thing its expensive but hell its fast with os 4.
sound has a high pitch crackling but its working.
acube is now testing a pci-e 2 pci board for me to shift the sata controller to the pci-e 1x slot, hope it works.
enjoy your sam its great hardware.
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Good luck with your purchase and hope it makes you happy.
Is it just me or are there a lot more of these threads lately? Hope so.
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Yep, seems I'm one among many that ordered a 460 lately :)
Updated news: UPS states that my sam460 will be delivered monday! yay!
Funny tho I've ordered a couple of things from AmigaKit the same day but they aren't here yet. Cheers to Acube for fast service :)
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My SAM460 was delivered today, i'm over excited but too tired to install it...what a life ;)
Review and pictures soon on a.org!
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Yep, seems I'm one among many that ordered a 460 lately :)
Updated news: UPS states that my sam460 will be delivered monday! yay!
Funny tho I've ordered a couple of things from AmigaKit the same day but they aren't here yet. Cheers to Acube for fast service :)
I am sure AmigaKit is just swamped with extra work in preparing for the sales of the soon to be released "First Contact" AmigaOne X1000 systems and the hundreds of buyers trying to get one.
I am sure you will have your items from them shortly, as they have always been very prompt with all of my purchases from them (which have been many).
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Got my Amigakit order friday, now i'm all set. Everything went like a breeze. Putting the motherboard in the case was easy except that my stupid ATX power connector was a 24 pin full so I had to cut out the last 4 and had to open a hole on the audio connector to make it plug on the sam board.
OS install was as easy as 3.1 used to be but at least it vanilla OS4 is cute and colourful.
Next step is to install update 3 since the internet connection setup obviously worked since I am posting this with OWB on my shiny new SAM460 :)