why are sams so expensive?

[Mightyzorlac]

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!...

[Mightyzorlac]

Bottom line their still to expensive if were ever going to recovery what little market is left for the Amiga , we have to be competitive with price sell many for low...was'nt that Jack Tremell's Moto back in the day...
 
I would happly pay £400 for one..... but not over 600 quid thats just too much..Why wont amiga INC do something ?the hardwares out there....they could be sell amiga by the bucket load, with the right advertising and sell it cheap and to the many , even the corner shop could sell them..and an alternative to windows PC's....

[Mightyzorlac]

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 I had to change my pants when I got the stuff home :roflmao:

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..