My Review of AmigaKit's Sam460ex Complete System

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I recently purchased a Sam460ex Complete System from AmigaKit and thought I'd write up an extensive review with photos for those who might be interested. You can find Part 1 on my Amiga.org blog.

Part 1 - The Order (Posted)
Part 2.1 - The Hardware (Posted)
Part 2.2 - The Hardware (Posted)
Part 2.3 - The Hardware (Posted)
Part 3.1 - The Software (Posted)
Part 3.2 - The Software (Posted)
Part 4 - The Conclusion (Posted)

I hope you enjoy it. I'll update this thread when the next parts to the review are added.

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According to the first part of your review Amigakit & FedEx did a great job and even time traveled and got you your system in early Feb a good month and a 1/2 before you ordered it. I did not know time travel shipping was even offered.

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  Didn't you know that North America is a good month behind the UK? :razz:

Thanks for pointing out my mistake, though.  All fixed now.

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Part 2 is now being posted. I've had to split it up into 3 sub-part due to the 10 image limit on blog posts.

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nice. did you test the 4 sata ports ALL at the same time, I've seen cards with 4 ports that can only run 2 ports at the same time.

I've tested three at the same time and it worked. I suspect all four would work at the same time as it'd be awfully strange for three to work but not four.

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Part 3 is now being posted. Again I've have to split it up into parts as there's a 10000 character limit per blog entry.

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Well, after a bit of delay, I've finally got round to posting Part 4. I hope you enjoy it.

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Plus 1!

I have never used an ng Amiga before and this is the most objective and revealing review i have read about AOS4.x so far

I didn't realise it was this crappy! :hammer:

So what i really want to know is what do you think about the almighty Morphos? And why didn't you get Morphos instead of Workbench4.x as you would have a superior and cheaper product?  :confused:

Please tell me

Minus 1!

I think maybe you should read the review again or just take your obviously biased opinions elsewhere as you're totally misrepresenting what I said. You obviously have no interest in AmigaOS 4 are just trying to troll.

As to why I didn't get MorphOS instead of AmigaOS... I sense that you don't actually care and are just using it as an excuse to do your evangelizing. Even if I answered you, you wouldn't actually listen to anything I say anyway so why should I bother?

Needless to say, people like you only make me less interested in your OS.

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My CD contains the following extras:
AISS, AmiDVD, AmiFTP, DiskImage, DiskMaster2, DOpus4, DvPlayer, IBrowse, OWB, pFTP, SimpleMail, Tunenet and YAM.  

My CD has a drawer called Media.  In that drawer there are some contributions from Danny and Stephen Fellner (mpg works with DvPlayer) and Susumu Hirasawa (songs and music work with TuneNet).

  AmigaKit did install those programs for me but before I got internet working (and without sound) most of those aren't very useful. Even the filemanagers aren't particularly useful until you have lots of files to manage Those are all good programs but there should also be a Picture viewer included, not just Multiview, but something that shows thumbnails, allows rotating and zooming, etc. Of, a handful of sample pictures should come along with it. Perhaps a picture editor should be in there as well.

As for the Media drawer... cool, I didn't know about that. I'm going to have to check it out. I wonder why AmigaKit didn't copy it onto the Hard Drive?

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Speaking of price, Amiga systems, including AmigaOnes, Pegasos, and Sams, tend to retain their value a lot longer than the equivalent price PC. In 5 years, you could probably sell your $1500 PC for $500 whereas you could probably sell your $1500 Sam460 for $1300. Therefore the relative cost difference is a lot less than it first appears.

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I'm sorry but you have misinterpreted what i was trying to say so i will try again

Third, when i said "almighty Morphos" i meant it as sarcasm. I feel in general people consider it a more polished product than AOS4.x so when i said "almighty" it was meant as sarcasm.

Sorry about the accusation. That's the problem with text, sarcasm doesn't come through very well.  Anyway, when MorphOS comes out for PowerBooks I'll probably look into getting one and use that as my portable system. Then I'll be able to compare the two OS's better.

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I must admit the "no sound" part is rather much a surprise. You'd think that shipping an unsupported card wouldn't be a good decision ?

Really? It shouldn't have been a surprise as it's pretty clearly stated on AmigaKit's product description. Also, I'm not sure where you got the idea that they shipped an unsupported card. All the cards that came with the system are supported. The lack of sound is because of a lack of drivers for the INTEGRATED sound. Even still, those drivers just aren't out YET. I'm sure they'll come, it's just a matter of time.