Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)

[cv643d]

Wow..  ~650 euro (incl 4.1). I was focused on ordering the 533MHz version tonight, too bad it was sold out. Somebody tell Acube to make more 330 euro Sams  :-)

[Vlabguy1]

WOW..only 512mb MAX..thats pretty weak.  What are these boards intended ?
Kiosks and such?

Rich
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amigakit wrote:
Systems are coming shortly- motherboard is here:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=840

Graphics are ATI Radeon M9 64Mb[/quote]

[amigakit]

Theres no plans to make more 533Mhz SAMs.

That is why we are stocking the 667Mhz SAM440ep

[kreciu]

I really don't understand people who complain about the how "old" Sam440 is?

It's for sure newer than A1200/A4000+PPC or AmigaONE.

1Gb of RAM for AmigaOS will be good for next 5 years... WHAT kind of software needs more than that?? TODAY??

I would rather lower the price of Sam440+OS4.1 (slightly). BUT even for that money it's "good" deal comparing OLD PPC boards for Amiga Classic - here is a whole new computer... no sandwich anymore!!!  

[kreciu]

I hope you will not run out of Sam440... like in case of AmigaONE... this would be disaster

$870 for mobo and OS4.1? This takes me some time

$700 for Sam440...  :roll: but still like a price of BlizzardPPC233...

[TheMagicM]

Its expensive, but 1 Amiga OS is too much of a monopoly.  Competition is good  Brings out the best in both camps.  I'm holding out for MOS 3 on MacMini

[cv643d]

Yes exactly, this will take some time to save up to. No impulse buy for me.

I can sadly not make 650 euro dissapear in front of my wife (although 330 euro is easy to hide away so that nobody notice :-) ).

[Fester]

cv643d wrote:
Yes exactly, this will take some time to save up to. No impulse buy for me.

I can sadly not make 650 euro dissapear in front of my wife (although 330 euro is easy to hide away so that nobody notice :-) ).

Ha! I hear you!  :-)

I'm going to save up for it and communicate my intentions when I muster the courage. :-)

[drewz21]

AmigaKit.
Thanks for the great news.  Glad to see a great company like yourself will be stocking it.

Question:
For an extra charge, can you guys build out a complete system for us?  Case, keyboard, mouse, etc...?

[Ral-Clan]

I'm not really understanding the benefits of this?  How well will it run "classic" 680x0 Amiga software?  If it can, is it just running the old classic software in a 68K/custom-chip emulator built into the OS?  And if that is the case, how is OS4.1 on a SAM better than running UAE on a PC?

[Fester]

ral-clan wrote:
I'm not really understanding the benefits of this?  How well will it run "classic" 680x0 Amiga software?  If it can, is it just running the old classic software in a 68K/custom-chip emulator built into the OS?  And if that is the case, how is OS4.1 on a SAM better than running UAE on a PC?

I'd like to have a machine with OS4 as the main OS. I haven't tried OS4 yet. Missed my chance a few years ago.

As for the earlier Amiga OSes, I'm only running them on winUAE. I sold most of my classic hardware earlier this year except for a couple 2000s and a 1000 that I haven't touched since early spring.

[_ThEcRoW]

545 eur without os?

[amigakit]

@drewz21

Hello!

We will build a computer to your requirements- get in contact with your ideas

[persia]

You are missing the point.  Nothing short of Jesus appearing in the clouds surrounded by Amigas will convince someone to come to "amiga" territory.  The best you can hope for is convincing Amigans to buy something.  At this price, there will be Amigans willing to buy.  

Is it overpriced, heck yes, Macs with these specifications would be turned down by most charities as gifts, but given that it's the only thing that will give you an OS4 fix, I'll even consider buying it...

amije wrote:
We need more users. Hans_

at this price, do you believe that anyone real new user, will come to the ''amiga'' territory?

[trekiej]

A PCI version of the Video Toaster would be a cool addition.
It would almost be like the good ole days.

[persia]

PCI Video Toaster

trekiej wrote:
A PCI version of the Video Toaster would be a cool addition.
It would almost be like the good ole days.