SAM 460 poor performance, high price

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Breaking news - hardware for AmigaOS is expensive! :O

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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

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or a cheap mac

Well OSX seems to be quite fine but Mac is quite overpriced IMHO

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No, it's not pathetic... it's spot on the mark. I would love to buy a OS4 machine - for hobby. But how can I justify a 1000 euros Sam460(without even taking performance into account)? Let's not even go into the X1000 price domain...

A hobby OS should come on a hobby priced hardware. Not professional priced hardware.

Yeah it's too bad that not all can enjoy OS4 but what i meant is that it's pathetic when people complain about it and want it to cost them no money at all but they have no problem spending the money on a new car etc.

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Just buy a used G4 Mac - they are dirt cheap and you can run the most advanced Amigaish OSes beside OS X. Especially the Mac mini is still a geogeous device: small, neat, energy efficient, pretty fast with MorphOS.

Why would i use something that has nothing to do with  my hobby and is MUCH more limited and expensive than the mainstream alternatives?

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Dunno - what was you hobby again?
Was it using a computer in the spirit of Commodore Amiga or was it woshipping a name?

using my amigas and keeping the amiga "alive"

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Of course smf is allowed to like only the officially branded products. I bet C=USA will have a happy customer there

lol Ofcourse

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Building expensive, slow and rare HW just to be exotic and different from everyone else doesn't sound a good strategy to me. But I suppose that can be seen as a value by some.

Isn't it just as insane as making crappy os'es that's lightyears behind the rest? but i suppose that can be seen as a value by some.

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Are you saying the MorphOS is lightyears behind other OS and crappy ?
 
Some examples please

I didn't mention Morphos at all,Why should i?  we all know how advanced it is.

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Define crappy.
Whom do you actually have in mind who's making a crappy OS?

i define all OS'es that can't follow the 2011 standards as crap. You know it and i know it that we're both using crap that would not had a chance even 10 years ago.

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Saying Amiga is crap is weird argument to spend thousands of dollars.

Yes it might sound strange but it's a hobby and i'm insane so it's worth it, but i wouldn't recommend it to anyone sane to even look at anything that has anything to do with aos/aros/morphos.
It's a pain to use them compared to the mainstream alternatives and it's a pain to have several computers just to run different os'es. But it's so exciting to follow all the improvements in my beloved OS from my childhood when Aos was king even if it's lightyears behind now. Aros and morphos has no roots for me even if i have been using it for many years now (have only tested aros quickly a few times). It sucked from the beginning and it sucks now.