It seems Acube have been teasing us all fall and winter for their new upcoming SAM460ex AmigaOS 4.1 compatible motherboard, finally it is available in the usual 4.1/motherboard combination from well known Amiga dealers on the net.
The SAM motherboard now hit GHz speeds as the SAM460ex runs at 1.15GHz, it is also the first Amiga compatible motherboard from ACube systems that has an PCIe slot, which I think is the main selling point of this motherboard.
If you remember the first SAM motherboard it had tiny GFX memory, so with a PCIe slot you can add a Radeon with 256MB memory or more in theory, perfect if you want to run huge resolution Workbench.
ACube states that the version of AmigaOS4.1 is a beta and you will be able to download the stable version of 4.1 once it is released.
Price for the motherboard and AmigaOS4.1 is 750 EUR, with taxes expect that price to hit 900 EUR. A bit expensive yes, but either you are one who pays this much for an 4.1 system or you are not.