SAM440 EP Flex

[the_leander]

niklasni1 wrote:
You know, I'm not sure... but the mini-ITX version is just over 600 euros including VAT and shipping... and that's just the MB.

I'm damn certain that I could build you a PC using Amithlon for half that and still give you performance far and above what the SAM (a nice concept though it is) could possibly hope to offer.

Hell, I'd lay good odds to my EeePC, were I to install Amithlon on it would outperform it.

I had forgotten just how much I used to spend on the Amiga... Seems things have only gotten worse in my absence  :-o  :-o  :-o

[the_leander]

niklasni1 wrote:

If I was interested in 'performance' I could build such a thing myself (or pick up one for free from somebody who's bought a newer one and thinks two years old is 'obsolete') - but as Hakim Bey said it, our sole criterion for judging a weapon or tool is its beauty...

Then Hakim Bey is a fool. Sorry, but paying $600 for a machine with less grunt then my EeePC, that will not run AmigaOS in any shape or form (not even the option of Amithlon) means it is a very pretty paperweight, if you're buying it to run AROS, well again, why blow all that cash when an EeePC could do a much better job, hell, there are even desktop variants coming out soon that are even cheaper.

The Amiga was pretty, but it was powerful and capable first in its day.The SAM, whilst it is arguably pretty, is neither powerful nor capable in any sense of the word. If it could run OS4 then maybe you'd have an argument, but thanks to the retards at A.inc, that is never likely to happen. Which I have to say in all honesty, I am disappointed with.