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Re: $77 Amiga one or SAM
« on: January 07, 2010, 02:52:56 PM »
Because how many tens of thousands of those Dreamboxes were produced? And how many similar products use the same mainboard? Compare that to the number of Sam systems produced... I can't see the link myself (blocked by my work server) but if it's like the Dreamboxes I have at home, it's a 350MHz PPC with 32MB of RAM soldered to the board, practically no expansion possibilities, no storage controller (either IDE or SATA), and a limited flash area for the OS. I hardly think it's comparable to the SAM, even if the Sam is underpowered...
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Re: $77 Amiga one or SAM
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2010, 02:57:54 PM »
Oh, that was it... 250MHz and 350 MIPS :) Not exactly ground breaking. And, as was said there, they were far more expensive when they were originally released, but since the cable encryption in many European countries was changed, most of them are effectively useless to Joe Public. I have a DM600 which had a 2.5" IDE connector, and I still use that as a NAS box at the moment. However, that cost (IIRC) €200, and that was without a hard drive, no USB ports, and extremely poor graphics performance (though fine for RGB TV use)...
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