Buying SAM 460 to replace my PC

[Iggy]

Yep, OS4 suffers from the same problem MorphOS has 9and many flavors of Linux), poor Flash support.
Want to run Firefox? Use a different platform because Timberwolf isn't better then OWB.

[Iggy]

Yep, it's just an Amiga clone like Aros and MorphOS. IMHO no matter how much money you spend on it, it's still not a real Amiga. 97% of the software available for OS4 is just a mediocre to bad Linux port. Sorry but everything you can run on a 1000+$ Sam440ep runs better on a 50$ x86 running Linux.

Don't worry dude.
Its a Amiga "clone" with hardware that's much more powerful then a "real" Amiga.
All NG Amiga's are designed to have 3.1 API compatibility. No hardware compatibility, but the hardware is obsolete.
So you can wait for a hobbyist to invent a FPGA based "new" Amiga, or move on.

Purists are always going to throw that term "emulation" around, but emulation runs circles around "real" its time to get over it.

[Iggy]

sam arent amigas and os4 arent amigaos, just put os4 for classics to a a1200/4000 and see the difference.

Actually, that would be a good idea for some of you. Try it.
Some older software that won't run of newer PPC based machines runs on PPC equipped Amigas (because it can hit hardware not present on a Sam or X1000).

Oh, and not all programs under AOS4 (and MorphOS for that matter) are bad Linux ports. Personally, there are a few OpenGL based ports under MorphOS that make any game under older Amiga OS versions look sad.