why are sams so expensive?

[Tajmaster]

Why is the Sam Flex so expensive? come on £629 for a half a gig memory under 1Gig machine? is it 1999? When I could buy a crappy windows machine for £429 and with a monitor? Wish Amiga inc would step up and make some hardware and stop messing about with making rubbish mobile games that no one buys . 15 years ive waited.... you could get this for £429....:angry:
 
Processor Type Quad Intel. Core 2 Clock-Speed2.33GHz
Front Side BUS1333MHzCache4 MB
Operating-SystemWindows Vista.
Home Premium
RAM Memory4096
MB Hard Disk
Capacity 500
GBOptical
Drive 1DVD Rewriter
Graphics DescriptionIntel GMA X4500
No of USB
connections 6
PCKeyboard
Mouse
 
 
or
 
AMD Phenom X3 8750 Triple-Core processor
(2.40GHz, 2MB Cache)
4GB DDR2 memory
 

640GB SATA hard drive (7200rpm)

• 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce GT120
• Dual Layer DVD Rewriter
• 6x USB and 1x FireWire port
• DVI, VGA and HDMI video output
• 10/100 network LAN

But because i love the amiga so much I will buy one at the end of the month (sam flex) . Ive just bought an A4000 last weekend at this car boot sale , £45 what a bargain , the guy who was selling did'nt have a clue what it was or how priceless they are now days, like hens teeth in the UK , he just though it was Junk, how wrong he was!...

 
Did everyone miss the "A4000 for £45"??!?!?!!! God thats a good price, you luck SOB ;) hehe
 
What did you get with it? was the battery thingy whatsit OK?
 
I got an A4000, A2000, 2 x A1200s and a CDTV (all with extras) for £100 :P I had to change my pants when I got the stuff home :roflmao:

[Tajmaster]

Anyone got any ideas as to how many SAM boards have been sold?
They seem to go out of stock pretty quick but that doesnt mean Dwayne Dibbly if they are only getting 2 in at a time!;)

[Tajmaster]

Thankfully its got the newer type of baterry that does'nt leak all over the board. It was in practically mint condition and came with loads of games and other software on the HD,a monitor, keyboard all working in perfect condition. Ive been in heaven since lol as Ive been looking for one of these for years, so lucky the old guy had no clue as it belonged to his son who died last in Iraq and he was having a good clean out of his stuff..

I feel sorry for the fella losing his son over there, poor guy.

Anyway It sounds like you got the uber rare A4000CR?? They came with the coin battery as standard. Did you get an accelerator of any sort too?
Good deal anyway I started going back to car boot sales last November and I always secretly hoped Id pick up a bargain Amiga, LOL! The funny thing is, I never saw one for months and months then I see a guy selling an A600 with a shed load of games and all he wants is TEN quid! I ripped his arm off,lol! Ironically, I go months without ever seeing one then see 2 at the same boot sale! LOL the other was an A500 with nothing else and he wanted £15, just the base unit so I didnt do too badly.