Brand New Sam460ex

[NovaCoder]

Well this is most suprising, I'd figured that ACube would be leaving the Amiga market after the X1000 was launched but they seem to be in it for the long run.

Nice board, it was what most of us were expecting and hoping for since the Flex came out

A couple of comments about the specs:

Not sure why they bothered with on-board GFX/Audio?
Looks like it's only only got one SATA port (and even that gets disabled if you use the PCI-e 1x slot)?

You have to wonder what Hyperion's support will be like for this new board when they also have to update OS4.1 for the X1000?

[NovaCoder]

True. But now Hyperion has an in-house hardware project that this seems to compete directly with. Yeah, I know A-Eon is set up as a separate company but we can see who is behind it. While the dots have not been officially connected, it would seem the X1000 is the MAP Hyperion has hinted at.

There's no question about the X1000 being tied to Hyperion, they even marketed the thing

ACube must have been working on this new board for awhile, probably started right after the Flex.  The interesting thing is that they still choose to release it.  The must have some confidence in selling them otherwise why would they bother.  It's all very interesting (the great Amiga soap opera continues).  They must also be confident that Hyperion will devote the required resources to get OS4.1 up and running on it quickly.

I wonder if they are also going to 'Flex' this thing?  You know 1.4ghz (460GTx), 4GB ram, 2 x SATA.....mmmm, not quite so 'low end' now if you know what I mean

I can't wait to see what happens over the next 6 months