Is price dictating what is for the masses or the OS/Hardware offerings? Just a logic question, nothing personal just interested on your thoughts. 
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.
The only things it's got going for it are the nostalgia factor and that it's something new to play with that has a connection to an old name. If Vtech or some random vendor put out a machine with similar specs at that price, it'd get laughed at.
