SAM 460 poor performance, high price

[Khephren]

People complaining about high prices on the amiga-market is just pathetic. It's just a hobby market so there's not much to do about it. Buy whats available if you're intrested in Amiga, if you're not intrested  in Amiga go buy some cheap windows box

The Pandora handheld, the beagleboard, Jens's ACA accelerators all are in the hobby market. While they have higher prices than mainstream computing, none of them are extreme. Unlike this.

[Khephren]

The future was bleak after the collapse.  Having a lot of different people in a lot of different camps is good!:

Can't say I agree with you there. We'd have more consistent and cheaper hardware, and probably more software, if we we had not been split into seperate camps.

[Khephren]

it was threads like these that caused so many Amiga users to leave the scene in the first place.
constant willy waving about who's outdated piece of hardware could run which outdated 3d game the fastest.
buy what you like, and enjoy it.

[Khephren]

I think commodore would have been slightly ahead of the current players, but not by much.
As Kronos said, they were pretty lazy on OS updates, no RTG implementation, no 24bit printing etc.
Although by the time of their demise, I think they had just come to the realisation that it was the Amiga or nothing for them, but to late. Had they survived, perhaps they would have put more effort in.

[Khephren]

@jorkany
I wouldn't say Amiga was only good because it smoked anything out there, sometime a good combination of factors   might end up delivering a better (or rather "preferred") experience.

As a matter of fact the original Amiga never smoked other computers in terms of pure CPU power (heck on that regard even the AtariST was slightly superior) only did great at handling raster graphics, BUT more or less simultaneously with the A500 release, Sharp delivered the X68000 in Japan which as far as raster graphics went, could say a thing or two let me tell you (res up to 1024x1024, 31Khz ScreenModes, up to 65000colors and much more) lucky Commodore as they never released it outside Japan.

What I find truly unique is the Multitasking OS and the great software it inspired.something special in its own right...

Well, tha Amiga used the CPU as a conductor, not the just as the orchestra, so it did not need quite as much grunt as CPU reliant machines. And wasn't just raster graphics that benefited from the custom chips.

I've always been interested in the x68000, but I don't expect I could have picked one up for £400 like I did with the A500, does not matter how powerfull a machine is, if I can't afford it!