why are sams so expensive?

[klx300r]

@ Mightyzorlac

the same reason why PPC cards cost a zillion dollars and A4000's are selling for ridiculous prices on Ebay!
it's a niche market and historically if you want to play in such a market you gotta pay :-)

btw, can't wait to get a Sam of my own!

[klx300r]

SAM doesn't win in either category, unfortunately.

Expensive, underpowered, unfriendly to new users, and not very likely to be able to take the place of a mainstream machine.

funny tone007,  that's what most of my pc loving buddies were saying about my Amiga back in the day !!!  I support Hyperion, Amiga OS4.1 and Sam & I know many other Amigans do too :-)
in the end to each his own my friends..there really is no right or wrong...I love my classics but love the fact that new Amiga products are produced today :-) besides, the more users and developers that come on board, the faster Amiga OS and its software base will progress...so get a Sam & OS4.1 & have fun !!

[klx300r]

But because i love the amiga so much  I will buy one at the end of the month (sam flex) ...

that's the Amiga spirit !..when was the last time any one bought a peecee becuase they 'loved' it :-) LOL

[klx300r]

It keeps the riff raff out LOL

I own 2 SAMs and I'll buy more...

Join the Club at a price or move along...

well said slayer!

[klx300r]

@cv643d, no, I think you'll find most of us on this board are or at least were Amiga users, not "Amigans". Many of those self identified "Amigans" left this board many years ago in a huff to start in another place, which in turn helped perpetrate fraud. Some of the more insane ones then set up another board and have since been viewed by almost everyone else as a cancer.

without starting a war :-) many of us here at Amiga.org still use our classic Amiga's and/or also new hardware running OS4.1 on a regular basis so that makes us all 'Amigans'.  

I don't understand the 'us' vs 'they' attitude ??