Sam460 V Mac Mini G41.5

[zylesea]

Anyone want to do a mplayer  benchmark using the following video ?
http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/Mplayer/Superman.flv
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Powerbook 5.6 (1.667 GHz)

BENCHMARKs: VC:   7.819s VO:   3.808s A:   0.000s Sys:   0.255s =   11.882s
BENCHMARK%: VC: 65.8037% VO: 32.0497% A:  0.0000% Sys:  2.1466% = 100.0000%
VO: Enabling blanker

Pretty close to X1000.

While I prefer MorphOS over OS4 I must say the Sam 460 is an interesting machine though. Albeit a bit expensive. But it's new (which in some occasions is a plus) and speed is okay for many things.

Generally I don't have concerns to buy used computers, I never had a failure and my mini is up and running since 5 years (-3 days to be precise, MorphOS 2.4 got released on 12 October 2009) now. If it fails tomorrow I just head over to ebay and get a replacement machine which costs pocket money only (quick check on ebay.de reports G4 1.5 GHz mini 1 GB RAM 64 MB VRAM, refurbished with 1 year warranty starting at 109 EUR). It's a easy shot. If you don't like it dump it off to ebay again and get the similar amount back.

[zylesea]

Not really, because your comparing bananas with apples.

Your comparing ARGB bitmap graphics with YUV420 overlay, two different technology’s.

YUV420p is a 12bit format vs ARGB a 32bit format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV

ARGB = 640x480*4 = 1 228 800 bytes
YUV420p = 640x480*6/4 = 460 800 bytes

ARGB takes 266% more space then YUV420p, conversion & bandwidth is also costly when you most use ARGB.

So basically the AmigaONE-X1000 has to work harder to display the same graphics.

Sorry, but that's just a (lame) attempt of a academic excuse.
I compare exactly one thing:

How fost does my powerbook replay a certain video and how fast does it an X1000 or Sam460.

Today, reproducible and reliable. Why the result is like it is is not of my interest. I wanna watch that video, not think about the technical internals. And I give a certain brown matter about what could be in future. It matters what's actually there. And for that i provided numbers. They speak for themselves.

But hey, yeah - two more weeks and everything's brilliant of course.