SAM 440 - What would owning one mean to you?

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@Amithony

As other people have already said its just about having some fun I already have a desktop PC and a laptop, so I don't need it to be a replacement for my PCs.

As my day job involves administrating linux and windows servers and supporting windows desktops and laptops it takes a lot of the fun out of using them at home.  In recent years I have also just about stopped buying and playing new PC games so that frees up the time and money I used to spend on them.

So I am looking for something else to do during the dark winter nights and wet Scottish weekends when I don't feel like reading or watching DVDs/TV or going out with friends.

Is it an expensive toy? Yes but is it any more expensive than buying a PS3 or other games console after you figure in buying games for it as well? maybe not.

As such I ordered a SAM and a copy of OS4.1 from Amigakit.

The question you have to ask yourself while purchasing any Amiga stuff or anything else is what else could I purchase with the money and do I need it more, or would it give me more enjoyment that what I am thinking about spending the money on.  What is a worthwhile purchase for me may not be such a worthwhile purchase to someone else with different needs and tastes.

As such I can see were some people are coming from with the SAM is over priced and under powered argument but to me the price is OK and its faster than my old BlizzardPPC equipped A1200 tower that so the speed will do as well.

So my answer to what a SAM means to me is having fun with a computer doing other thinks than playing games for a change, but I don't ever expect the SAM I have ordered to replace my other computers for doing work, just to be a fun diversion for a few hours now and again, while I play with ImageFX4, photogenic and what ever new OS4 software I find fun when I get it.

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@takemehomegrandma
Sadly the Efika is only available at its full retail price in the UK and shipping is about as much again to the UK as the $100 purchase price then we have to pay VAT of 17.5% on top of the purchase and shipping them it uses a non standard form factor so a case is also expensive for people that don't want to make their own.

I looked at purchasing one and a copy of morphos when morphos 2.0 was released but it was going to workout almost as expensive as the SAM and OS4 is now but it just dose not have the ram required to run linux well so I could not really use it under linux as a replacement for my existing epia-m Linux box.

But If I lived in the USA instead of the UK I would have been inclined to have purchased the Efika and MorphOS2 as I am sure it would have the same fun factor I am looking for with the SAM and OS4.