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

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There are two questions here:

1) is it overpriced?  Yes, by at least twice.
2) is there an alternative?  No.

Clearly the two questions are related....

[persia]

I know Amiga has never been an open system but the closed box idea is one of the many reasons Commodore failed.  Only Apple has succeeded in this model and that only because of a little MP3 player...

Also we are dealing with a very tiny market.  Any new Amiga will sell maybe a few hundred, so the market is protected using a hardware dongle (iboot).  But buy using small manufacturers you limit yourself to overpriced underpowered hardware.