Peg II vs Sam 440

[zylesea]

Which machine would run 4.1 better? That is all.. Looking to get the best 'bang' for my buck.

The PegII has the more powerful CPU - the 7447 has altivec, is 1.15 times faster per clock than the 460ex and its L2 cache is twice the size (512 kb vs. 256kb). The Sam has faster RAM though.
I would go for the PegII - support is good (if something fails bplan are still fixing the machines) and it runs MorphOS, too.

[zylesea]

Peg2 is absolutely better because it is faster.

Interestingly in the linked Hollywood benchmark the Pegasos II numbers outperform the Sam460 only if the Peg is running MorphOS. With OS 4.x it is surprising slow (not even half the speed as compared to the MorphOS values on the same machine). Seems there's something wrong with OS4.1 on the Pegasos (or w/ Hollywood & OS4 in general).
Anyway, PegII still the best choice, since it offers most options and has the most powerful cpu of all OS4 systems available today.