Hi, i've just been given premission from the wife to buy myself a sam (providing I sell off some of my old stuff!)
Problem is im not sure which to get- should I get the sam460ex basic system
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=37_86&products_id=1040
and add a radeon 4650 graphics card along with 2gb of ram for a grand total of £841.96
OR...
Do I wait and buy an amigaone 500 with the radeon graphics card for £944.47
Also... the sam from amigakit says DVDRW and SATA 4-port card is an extra £34.99 so do I presume that this computer has a standard dvd drive or even none at all!!???
Please give me some advice...
You don't spend much money in a graphic card, because the current Amiga OS hasn't 3D drivers for it. The DVDDrive you can use one external, for example (although I not tested) a DVDdrive with a case, a old drive from PC, I used for my Sam an external HP DVDRW drive, also you buy a big harddisk of 1 Tera, because you don't install big Amiga games, there are fews, and to see movies, well, for codecs and screen size the Amiga players don't play them, the most important is the board with a fast CPU to move the 3D games and some 2D games (battle for the wesnoth big maps) and some movies.
512 or 1GB of memory is good more well, I don't think that the Amiga OS4 and the games the use.
The keyboard and mouse you can buy that you like you can see the some list to hardware that runs fine in Amiga OS4, there are stickers for fulfill the Winlogos.
