Buying SAM 460 to replace my PC

[danwood]

As for boot times, my Win7 PC boots just as quick as my SAM with OS4.1u4, both running SSDs.

Yeah, since Update 3 OS4.1's boot time has become a lot slower, it's the same as my Windows 7 PC now as well.  Hopefully it'll be restored to how it was pre-update 3 at some point, I could soft reboot in around 3-5 seconds then, more like 25-30 now.

[danwood]

I highly doubt that the new splash-screen is the cause. AmigaOS 4.x has had a boot screen for ages, and changing the colour of the pixels won't suddenly slow it down. Have you added "run >NIL:" in front of the line that starts up networking? Maybe you used to have that, and forgot to reinsert it after an update. The complete line in my startup-sequence reads:

Run >NIL: NIL: Execute S:Network-Startup

I don't like doing this as I have some Commodities that expect net access on boot, so I get a heap of requesters complaining doing it this way, as the network stack often hadn't loaded up by the time Workbench had loaded.