SAM and other new hardware - missing modern graphics card slots?

[AndyFC]

I went to teh MAG bash in Coventry (brilliant event, thank you to all the organisers) a few weeks ago and one major thing struck me during a demo of OS 4 on the SAM, during a part where the presenter mentioned that a new SAM board is coming out with more PCI slots.

Why are we stuck with PCI slots and the limited array of graphics cards? Surely an AGP slot or PCI-X wouldn't be too hard to implement now, or am I missing something?

Edit: Sorry, I meant PCIe (PCI Express), just the wrong abbreviation.

[AndyFC]

Yes, so AGP is dead, and that supersceded PCI, so surely PCi for graphics cards is dead too?

[AndyFC]

So the main inhibitor is development cost for a PCIe bus, and there is little point developing for AGP.

Out of interest, I looked on the price comparison site kelkoo.co.uk for Graphics Cards and it cam eup with 15 PCI cards, 18 AGP and 331 PCI Express cards (Radeon 9250 for £31 from Micro Direct for anyone with OS 4.1 btw).

On the other hand I suppose that we Amigans are used to limited-availability hardware.