why are sams so expensive?

[quarkx]

I do think they are just dreaming to get a foot hold in the market at the current prices. I know IF i had that kind of money to spend on a Amiga, I would much rather use the money to go to an A4000 tower or even an A3000 tower instead.
They are just shooting themselves in the foot at the current prices, don't worry, the SAM will be just a distant memory soon if they don't drop the prices, only a handfull will be sold, and, in the end, it will be just another failed attempt. Then everyone who was involved with it will all be standing around scatching them selves and asking "what went wrong?". The same will be said for the mini-mig, c-one etc.- All nice hardware, but all way over priced for what they are.

[quarkx]

Yeah...  is that so?

I bet if you tried 4.1 on a next-gen Amiga you would sell all your classic systems and get one as fast as possible.

Think about this tonight: what is better, to have those systems in your sig in the closet doing nothing, or to have AmigaOS on modern hardware on a system that is capable of work today?

IF the Sam were a reasonable price, I would buy it in a heart beat, but (too me) a reasonable price for ANY motherboard is LESS than $200. You can get a kick butt ASUS motherboard for less than $200 USD.
BTW ALL my amigas are set up (except 2 A500's which are in the Closet, as I have no room to put them put out on my 2 benches) but thats not the point. IF they wanted wanted, REALLY WANTED to get them out and make them a better sucsess then all the past "Failed" machines, they would sell them at a reasonable price.


Simple math why sell 10 boards at $700USD when you will sell a hundred or more at $200