Be thankful that they're offering an $1100 board in a $40 case for $1400? I think not. This notion of "you should accept anything anyone offers you because at least it's new development" is the plague of the Amiga community.
with the current exchange rate it's closer to $1200USD, but yeah, it's pricey.
Funny you should mention, because you know what? I got a quad-core 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 (PPC 970, a processor which kicks the ass of the Sam's PPC 440 six ways from Sunday even clock-for-clock and core-for-core,) with 4GB of DDR2, for ~$500. That's a bit over 1/3 the cost of this, has a [strike]prettier[/strike] less ugly case, and kicks the unholy **** out of a Sam460ex. Of course, it won't run OS4 because Hyperion are stubborn nincompoops, but that's okay, either of the other NG Amigoid OSes will run on it, as well as OSX or Linux.
it's a great machine, no question. doesn't look like support for MOS is coming any time soon, though. as i'm sure the MOS developers can tell you, supporting the G5 system architecture is not exactly trivial. :lol:
besides: hyperion believes in a platform that is 'uniquely' amiga. whether the SAM fits the bill or not is anyone's call. darn shame, though. just from the standpoint of price/performance supporting power macs seems a no-brainer. well, if, that is, you aren't interesting in supporting your own hardware ecosystem, which i think hyperion are.
If you don't have the 10 minutes it takes to install a motherboard in a case or (is this even possible?) can't figure out how to put it in place and use screws to secure it, you should not be using a computer.
:laughing:
i think the real issue here is that hyperion is now establishing the amigaone brand as the family of amigaOS computers. it's nice to see the brand unified. beyond that, it's just a SAM in a third-party case.
by the way, you planning on coming to amiwest next month?
-- eliyahu
