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Just one small point: as stated before in this thread price is not $3.3k, customers outside EU do not pay 20% VAT.

Product Link US:

http://www.amigakit.us/product_info.php?products_id=1071

Canadian it is 3.3k

[AmigaClassicRule]

Doesn't 4.x use a UAE implementation to run classic apps just like AROS?  Endianess has nothing to do with an operating system.  

Power architecture was losing the race a more than a decade and a half ago, it was only a matter of time before the game consoles abandoned it as well.  Apple planned ahead, endianess was built on a few core routines and the rest of OS X was blind to it.  Endianess is a tempest in a teacup.

I agree with you persia...I thought 4.x is not backward compatible at all and that it relies on UAE just AROS does. Am I confused?

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That is AWESOME.  I didn't realize OS4 was that compatible.  That's a lot of hard work, good job guys! :pint:

OK! I want to own SAM 440 not 460...just 440..and I am willing to cough up the dough to get it. The problem I have...where can I find it? I find no store that sells it and I want it to be affordable.

Any advice?

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OK....guys....I am doing it. I am following through and attempting to order the SAM440 667 Mhz with 512 MB of RAM from the retail store. I am asking questions about price difference between a complete system or just the motherboard and getting the stuff part by part. I want to see how it works out for me.

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@AmigaKit

Nice try but I am not going to spend 3.3k dollars on a computer...mkaaaaayy!

@ElPolloDiabl

Of course it all comes back to price...we are the one who spending it aint we? Naturally, if AmigaOS 4.1 was like MorphOS and was available in Mac hardware and even specific one I would spend 300 bucks easy on it. So it all comes back to price.

@All

I like SAM440ep it is cute I can get all my OS 4.1 experience I ever wanted or needed and so far with the current features and software library availability I would say SAM440ep will give me all the experience I need with OS 4.1 had I spend 3.3k on X1000. I have PS3, PS4 and PC to watch HD movies so I have no worry of getting this experience on OS4.1 that badly to make me spend 3.3k for it.  

Besides from what I checked OS4.1 is not really exploiting or taking full advantage of the X1000 hardware...it does not even support dual processor...so I do not see the reason to spend 3.3k on a machine and being a monster machine if it is not going to be taking 1000000% advantage of the features of the machine.  I think SAM440ep is all I need right now..it is small...compact...more powerful than an PPC for classical Amiga anyways...cheap...for Amiga hardware and affordable.

I think X1000 is the mothership Amiga and should any future Amiga hardware be developed should be always coming close to the intermediate between SAM series and X1000 and always attempt to make it an affordable price range. There should be no need to make another mothership Amiga at all...X1000 should be the only and finalized Amiga hardware that is powerful and every new line should be weaker than X1000 but more powerful than SAM and more affordable.

The more you guys do this...the more customers can come in and purchase this....and repeat cycle until......prices of Amiga hardware becomes cheaper and cheaper and if you have the money and want to go big go X1000.

Another thing...I think we need more software library to make using Amiga hardware even more so worth it. List out what we are missing that we use daily on other PCs and make a native version for Amiga system.

For example, we have skype in Windows, Linux, Mac. Naturally we cannot have skype on Amiga since Microsoft owns the thing...but what we can do...is have our own version and native one for Amiga that give us everything that skype does on Windows, Linux, Mac.

Ooh we need a very good VMPlayer for Amiga system that allows us to run other OSes with fast frame rate...I cannot remember what else to list. But we should do is list software library use daily and need on this system and make our own version not necessary a port but our own native version and develop it...

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Question is this, until OS4 is running SMP out in the wild, why bother with any multi-core CPU computer unless you are directly developing OS4 SMP for it?

That is an excellent question. That is why I am saying X1000 is a mothership Amiga with a software and OS not taking full exploit of the hardware's capabilities. Consumers are spending fortunes on features they cannot access or have.

There is no way you can convince me I should get an X1000, right now. That is why I am venturing in SAM440ep territory. Understandably they maybe handful of games will run slow or difficult in a low end spec with 512 MB of RAM but I do not see any game worth spending 3.3k on it either.  Of course I do have purchase MorphOS first from the list of things to do . I did do an order and I did receive an email, but I have not paid it yet. By the end of the month I will buy MorphOS for my iBook G4 . I enjoy browsing the internet in it...by the way...off topic...what is the latest version of odyssey for MorphOS?