SAM 460 poor performance, high price

[krashan]

Altivec isn't used in Amiga software at the moment

Amiga programmers can't use it? It is not a rocket science, really. Or maybe they are limited to porting Linux programs, which concentrate on x86 and nobody cares about AltiVec there?

[krashan]

Opinions vary.

No. It is just your skewed opinion, which is different.

What mistake? The Mac uses DDR1, SAM460 uses DDR2. @ 400 rating DDR1 will outperform DDR2 at the same rating because of latency and overhead. If SAM460 can use memory faster than DDR2-400 then it will outperform the G4's DDR-400 memory. These are facts.

Facts end at "SAM460 uses DDR2". The rest are just your speculations. Especially stating facts starting the sentence from "if" is amusing.

[krashan]

On the other hand - Mac hardware is also with poor performance and high price, compared to the PC hardware. Be it brand new or second hand.

You've forgot about one small fact. Some second hand Mac hardware runs MorphOS. PC hardware does not. Copmaring $80 I've spent on my Power Mac with PC hardware prices is pointless then.

[krashan]

AROS is not MorphOS. Just try both and see the difference yourself.