Sam 440EP: Overpriced? Obsolete? Overestimated? Underestimated? Or just the right hardware?

[Raffaele]

I read many things about Sam440EP.

Major part of the comments is from people who said it is obsolete, operpriced and underpowered...

I say this:

Before Sam 440 EP AmigaOS had NO HARDWARE AT ALL to run...

Now it HAS the hardware...

Sam440 EP has no horsepower?

That is not a problem for AmigaOS...

We do not need just one GHz out of 2 GHZ to run just the OS like in Windows...

We need some hardware that performs very well its tasks...

Actually then with SAM 440EP we could:

Listen music

Write some letters

Play CDs and DVDs

Read mail

Visit forums and browsing internet

Doing some FTP

Play and joke with Audio (533 MHz and 667 MHz are good enough for music)

Etcetera...

You could also doing some photoediting...

Speed it is not necessary... Amiga paint and image editing programs were ahead their time when they were created and still coul perform some good editing...

And MAINLY...

With SAM 440 EP more developers could enter the world of AMIGAOS 4.1 and start developing for it...

What we could not...

1) Doing exterme real time 3D...

Do we need it ATM?

IMHO answer is no. We do ot need it...

We could start doing it with dual core G4 MPC 8641 both core clocked at 1,42 GHZ for example, but at the moment, we need the DEVELOPMENT machines for porting better AmigaOS 4.1 to became Simmetrical Multi Processing, and on which to develop BRAND NEW Amiga Extreme 3D rendering software...

FDirst step is to achieve software, then we could also upgrade the hardware...

2) Second missing camp, Video Editing...

Do we need it at the moment?

Again NO, we do not need it, and we could not afford it due to Amiga Hardware is not so performant...

But again SAM 440 EP is here to ALLOW the developers to starting creating new software...

SAM IS NOT FOR THE COMMON USERS...

SAM IS FOR DEVELOPERS AND CORE USERS...

Don't think the fact SAM 440 EP is UNDERPOWERED...

It is here to fill some gaps with PCs, and reach the availability of hardware for Amiga...

At least it has USB 2.0 ports and with that system we could mount any device to keep SAM alive for other 20 years like elder Classic Amigas like A1200 and A4000, that now counts 20 years of lifetime...

Do not forget that first batch of SAM 440 Ep is a 10 layer motherboard...

And that ACube asks some universities here in Italy to test it, for obtain the military specs... :-o

A 10 layered motherboard it will be almost unbreakable...

SAM 440Ep Flex it will be just a 6 layers only Motherboard...

REMEMBER:

SAM440 EP is a first step again for the Amiga...

Amiga was hospitalized all these years, and laying into bed.

Now Amiga is waking up again and need to learn again to walk...

SAM 440 EP is the first right step.

[Raffaele]

pan1k wrote:
I think it's overpriced just because they aren't mass produced like a PC motherboard. I'd totally buy a SAM 440EP if it were around $250USD.  Looks like i'll have to get an Efika instead tho..

Efika at 99 US$ equipped with PPC MPC 5200 at 400 MHz are no more...

Next Efika will mount MPC 5121 and again at only 400 MHz...

Good enough to do all of the above computing specs... But we need to wait MorphOS 2.1 to be adapted to run on it...

How many time could we wait in Amiga? Another year?

So spit on existing hardware, and wait for the future to come...

Efika is good, we need just to wait for a good port of MorphOS on it.  But there are not only MorphOS users like me... There are also those who prefer AOS 4.0.

(For example I never will buy SAM 440 EP and Efika, as I own A Pegasos II Machine, and I will trade it only for DUal Core PPC 8610 based Pegasos III or equivalent AmigaONE/SAM)

I also had the hope in the future we could see MorphOS on Sam 440 EP also, so we had had joined again all the O.S. onto a single hardware platform but in recent thread in Italian Forum, one person from ACube revealed that MorphOS Team asked too much to port MorphOS on SAM 440 EP, and also they asked to have not only royalties on single OS release, but they want also that entire price fee of the OS to being passed at their account, without any renevue for ACube.