I'd rather have a slightly slower cpu with more ram and better video card and more bandwidth. Its still a 1ghz ppc460 with fpu, just lacking altivec 
Not only it is lower MHz, it's also slower per MHz. Even Pegasos2 G4 is faster than SAM 460, and that's before altivec, and Mac Mini G4 is considerable faster than Pegasos 2.
how many windows can morphos do for composition/3d with a 32mb radeon 9250 vs a radeonhd 4650 1gb on my sam build amigaos 4.1 when your running a 1920x1200 screen?
It's only limited by the amount of fast memory. Why are there such limitations in OS4 anyway?
333mhz DDR PC2700 vs 533 mhz DDR2 PC4200...
That's about the only thing where Sam460 is faster. However, it doesn't compensate for slow CPU performance.
that 'faster' mac mini has a lot of deficiencies vs the sam 460 board.
Quite the contrary. 460 has a lot of deficiencies over the Mac Mini with 7447. It's rather curious considering Mini is a lot older technology. I guess it's due to the fact that all these AMCC CPUs really are souped up PowerPC 440.
the sam460 fpu is no match for having altivec instructions tho...
Even without the altivec the 460 is already slower.
