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Re: WANTED: A CyberstormPPC for A4000D
« on: April 23, 2009, 07:01:05 PM »
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Bazzaq wrote:

That went for not a bad price.


Not bad, pfffff... some 3 years ago one of those cards would have only fetched a mere 350 US dollars on Ebay. It's only since AOS4 was released for classic Amigas that the prices for PPC cards have skyrocketed. It seems only just fair that the prices are dropping again now.

You can buy yourself a brand new SAM for the same price anyway, and that's a LOT faster than the Cyberstorm.
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Re: WANTED: A CyberstormPPC for A4000D
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 10:20:16 AM »
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McVenco wrote:

You can buy yourself a brand new SAM for the same price anyway, and that's a LOT faster than the Cyberstorm.


Looking at AmigaKit's prices itd cost you alot more for a fully configured SAM. Even using the lower cost Flex version of the board, once you've added the case, hard drive, keyboard etc its well over £500.


Define "fully configured" then.

A 667MHz SAM costs £405 at Amigakit, and for the remaining 115 pounds I'm sure I can find a case, keyboard, mouse etc. to make it a fully working system. Now if you want a high-spec SAM with a very cool case then indeed you need to spend a lot more, but just for comparison you can't disagree that you can have a workable SAM system for 520 quid.

Of course you'll need to add 100+ for AOS4.1 but you'll need to pay that for the CSPPC version as well...
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Re: WANTED: A CyberstormPPC for A4000D
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 12:31:13 PM »
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JJ wrote:

Who mentioned os4, which you have to buy for sam if you want an amiga os, where as you can continue running 3.9 on A4000


Then you don't need a PPC. I had a BlizzardPPC once but I hardly found it more useful with 3.9 than the 68060.

The fact that prices for PPC cards went up with the release of OS4.0 indicates that people want it for 4.0. Nobody in their right mind buys a PPC card only to use it with 3.9, not anymore at least. Hence my mention of OS4.
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