Power 7 CPU - 8 cores

[vox]

Ya all a bunch of dreamers!!!

Why? Let PowerPC chips be developed, and we might see some in action
with MorphOS, AmigaOS or AROS?

[vox]

Power 7 chips have the TDP of a nuclear reactor(they only run, AFAIR, with watter cooling) and the price of a small hatchback car... Which means it's the logical choice for X2000

Oh my God, its Amiga, and is selling. Even in small quantities. Unlike some.

[vox]

Yet again Vox shows the true depths of his ignorance.

What ignorance? That X1000 has sold its small offerings in despite of having the price in range of fake Amiga mini?

[vox]

A faster way to run software that simply doesn't exist that would even take advantage of it, at least on the Amiga side.

Give me a 9Ghz PPC CPU on my SAM and I'll still be asking for software that even tasks the 600 mhz chip that's on it now.

It's like overclocking a calculator when things are essentially a "one trick pony" ordeal.

While Linux could use that kind of power we need to fully use existing one and develop some real software first. No need for new hardware yet. But everyone that can buy SAM or X1000 should do so.

Meanwhile, some updated AROS PPC, more support of these 3 boards from Linux PPC Distros and AmigaOS/MorphOS development would be nice.

[vox]

Seriously considering a 460, Vox.
Can't justify an X1000, but I'm hoping that whatever Varisys designs as its sucessor is more affordable.

Have been doing the same, but after painful experience with building DJ Nicks SAM 460 board to fully usable system, and also comparing board exapandability and performance, X1000 is in my eyes better solution. Not to mention additional OS 4.2 licence for SAM.

However, who doesn‚t have patience to save and again wait for X1000 should go for SAM 460. 1Ghz CPU, DDR2 and SATA2 is nice setup. Would love to see MorphOS for it too. Debian Wheezy and OS 4.1.5 for now ...

[vox]

Yeah, the MorphOS development team has pretty much ruled out support for Acube hardware, but I wouldn't mind it either.
And the neat thing about the 460 (as opposed to the 400) is that you can use modern video cardss on it.
 
A Radeon HD 4650 or 4670 should work with the same drivers used on the X1000.

It is sad they don`t wan`t to be avail for avail new HW (it would be much better representation to the world even with high price of SAMs, but 440 can now replace Efika as low end and 460 could be about Peg2 with PCI-E and SATA2). Some licences would be bought, and  more importantly, possibility for OS4 crowd to test and maybe even recompile, create for MorphOS.

PCIE bus is the major advancement of SAM 460 surely.

But when compared in expandability (USB, PCI ...) as well as in board pecularities of having awful integrated everything, X1000 is my choice. Hopefully, board will be fully supported and OS 4.2 out by the time I save $3000 + P&P + import fees ... in a country with 500$ average salary.