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[SysAdmin]

March 12, 2010

Bassano del Grappa, Italy

Sam440ep-flex Easter promotion

Starting from today and until 12/04/2010, we will apply a 13% discount to our Sam440ep-flex board @733Mhz. The discounted price will be EUR 349 (EUR 418,80 including VAT).

Offer is valid while stocks last.

Please note, together with the board you must buy a copy of AmigaOS 4.1.

Visit ACube website for more information.

[koaftder]

Time to dump that stock and move on. The ship is sinking.

[Firedawg]

Originally Posted by koaftder

Time to dump that stock and move on. The ship is sinking.

I was just checking out Acube's site and was thinking the same thing. I have supported them in the past with my wallet, but I just could not invest in the SAM based on the pricing points they were demanding for both EP & Flex.

The Dawg

[klx300r]

@ koafder

nah..the ship is stable and fine...the X1000 sales will affect the Sam sales initially but the Sam running OS4.1u1 is a great system for the average user without spedning the extra money for the X1000

[tone007]

klx300r, you're no Steve Jobs.

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by tone007

klx300r, you're no Steve Jobs.

haha ..tone..i'll take that as a compliment sir...after all I'm an Amiga and not a Mac ! :-)....I'm just a classic and OS4.1 user stating my personal experiences and I'm an engineer by profession unlike Jobs whose a marketing man

[NovaCoder]

I guess one way of looking at it is if the X1000 results in some cheaper SAM's for a 'period of time', then all is good in the world

Hell if they drop another 100 EUR I might even pick one up myself

[persia]

Yeah, Steve Jobs, if he were ever in this situation would be selling iLifeboats and tell you how wonderful they are compared to the sinking ship and how from the day they made the ship what they really had in mind were these lifeboats and we're all real fortunate now to be able to actually use them.....

[redrumloa]

Originally Posted by tone007

klx300r, you're no Steve Jobs.

Tone, tone, tone. Be nice, tsk tsk.

[dammy]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

I guess one way of looking at it is if the X1000 results in some cheaper SAM's for a 'period of time', then all is good in the world

ACube said they would go to another system later in the year IF they have enough SAM440 sales. How many of those looking today to get a SAM440 can afford both X1000 and a new SAM440 plus a new system from ACube later on in the year? In this world economy of horror, I don't see too many people being able to afford to buy two systems this year, let alone three systems. That means they will have to choose between SAM440 now, wait till the X1000 hits in June ("Before Summer"), or wait to see what the end of the year, if anything, brings as far as a new system from ACube. Two of the three of the choices will not work for ACube.

[Acill]

Just get a Powermac G4 and MOS, I just picked up 5 1.25GHZ MDD systems from a school auction for $125, not each for ALL 5.

[koaftder]

Originally Posted by Acill

Just get a Powermac G4 and MOS, I just picked up 5 1.25GHZ MDD systems from a school auction for $125, not each for ALL 5.

Excellent deal, especially since Amigakit dropped the Sam.

Save a pile of money, grab a mac mini and MOS. MOS devs don't tell users they can all go and catch fire as well.

[cha05e90]

@koaftder
Hmm, but some of them might *think* something like this - but won't tell... ;-)
[BTW: You are qualified for the 97, I suppose. :-) ]

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by koaftder

Excellent deal, especially since Amigakit dropped the Sam.

Amigakit recently sold out of Samflex boards so they temporarily took them off the web page but that does not mean they 'dropped' the Sam ??? where are you getting this info from anyway?

[koaftder]

Originally Posted by klx300r

Amigakit recently sold out of Samflex boards so they temporarily took them off the web page but that does not mean they 'dropped' the Sam ??? where are you getting this info from anyway?

A thread on AWN.