The board is running at 1.15 Ghz and allows all Amigans to use modern graphic cards thanks to its PCI express slot.
But not at modern speeds, and the OS doesn't support any of the modern features.
Oh, and:
"Notes: the SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time"Other features include: 7 USB ports and Gigabit ethernet.
Is that USB2 or USB1.1? Oh, I forgot, in OS4 that doesn't matter...
The board is available at a suggested price of 749,00 EUR (including AmigaOS 4.1).
Price excludes local taxes and shipping costs.
At Amigakit it's €920, for just the board and the OS. Nothing else, no memory, no HDD, no *nothing*. So for a usable computer you'd definitely be going "north of" €1,000 with shipping costs on top of that...
The version of AmigaOS 4 that will be shipped with the Sam460ex is still to be considered beta.
Isn't it always?
Currently RadeonHD driver supports the following chipsets with full 2D hardware acceleration and DDC
So only partial GFX support then. No 3D. And you can't use it together with SATA HDD's/CD-ROM's/DVD's anyway, so...
The audio driver will be released on OS4depot as soon as it is ready.
So no Audio then.
The driver for the onboard SATA port is still experimental. It is not loaded by the kicklayout file
So no SATA then.
And no USB2.
How about the Gigabit Ethernet, is that supported?
So for "only" €1,000 you get "all this" in a system that's probably still outperformed by a Pegasos 2 in many areas. Ouch!
Well, at least they put a Lattice XP2 FPGA on the thing. In previous versions of their Sam's, the FPGA's has proven to be such useful for... well, uhm... yeah... Well, maybe if they rebrand the chip "XENA Light" and the optional 80 I/O pins expansion connector "XORRO Light" the magic will happen? Because XENA and XORRO is what makes boards true Amigas, everyone knows that! :p
Well, Good Luck with this one, Acube! If you are designing a board from scratch anyway, I can't for my life understand why you don't base it around a MPC8610 or MPC8640 or similar. Then you would have got yourself a sellable product. But no, you continue to make desktop designs around strange AMCC processors that's not really meant for desktop usage.
"Notes: the SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time", I mean, come on!
