Opinions / Info - AmigaOS 4.x Systems

[amoskodare]

I too recommend the Sam440-flex with Radeon 9250 as your first OS4 machine

It's pretty cheap, it's very well supported and feels snappy enough. You can always then buy a faster one if you feel you need more grunt in the CPU department...

And OS4.1 fully upgraded to Update 6.

[amoskodare]

here is the email excerpt (I asked about "Sam" in general not a specific model...):

Hello,

Shipping to USA is 55 euros for the board alone and 71 euros for an A1-500.

The "A1-500" suggiest that they mean Sam460ex as that is the motherboard used in AmigaOne 500.

[amoskodare]

So, getting back to topic...

Not bothered about having a new board? Peg2 - best all-rounder, most stable G4 board, has altivec.
Just to test compatibillity/play around with as a curiosity? Sam440
As an AmigaOS4.x main machine at a reasonable** price? Sam460
As a dual-booting useful Linux workstation capable of doing some real number crunching/high memory applications, which also runs AmigaOS4.x? X1000

This is a pretty good summary/overview