Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)

[zylesea]

Nice for those desperately waiting for some hw to run OS4.x.
But not interesting for me.

[zylesea]

tonyyeb wrote:
Come on. You realise the mass production nature of Macs and PCs cannot compare to the low production of SAM boards. Plus Macs and PCs are the same technology now and SAM isn't like either. It has taken a lot to produce the SAM board where as Apple can use existing tech and make them into Macs very easily.

IIRC the Sam is expensive by design: A many layer pcb (8 or 10 layers IIRC)) and expensive parts (e.g. the M9 chip). Technically the Sam might be okay, but market wise I'd say it isn't a big hit.
My estimation is sales in the some hundrets. At least I won't buy one.

[zylesea]

recidivist wrote:
And how many people paid $599 USD in 1983 for a Commodore 64 ?

Or my $900 Radio Shack Model I in 1979?

The Sam is much less expensive in terms of computer performance ;it is looking expensive because the mass market IBM compatibles are so cheap.

Sam perhaps should be compared with Apple Computers as being a  niche market item..

But in 1983 a several times faster computer was not avaialable for half the price of the C64...