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@Martin
If i were you, and have a hobby without all that "is too expensive" stuff, then i go for X5000/020. Why ? Because it's fast, everything works, no issues, all good, fully supported and all that. 3D fastest possible, CPU fastest possible, RadeonRx/RadeonHd all works and in OS and in Uboot, can even install Morphos if need it, no hardware quirks, no issues with anything. Probably the best AmigaNG machine ever made. It's like the next step after x1000 (the one i have too, and can say that X1000 feels like beta of X5000:) ).
But then, if you still want to consider something cheaper (why so, if it's hobby, but anyway), like Sam460 or Tabor, then you should be aware of one big issue of A1222 : no compatibly FPU, and so, FPU emulation included into kernel for A1222. But as in the case with any emulation : it has its flaws and issues, and unfixed things which probably will never be fixed (because i can't see any progress in os4 beta list being made in terms of FPU emulator for Tabor).
What it mean from user POV, is that some software from os4depot will simply refuse to work, some apps will surely crawl like hell, and some other issues which no other amigang hardware have will hit any owner of A1222.
So, if i was the one who left with a choosy sam460 or Tabor, I will surely go with Sam460, just because it much more tested, all issues known, and everything pretty well real-live tested and bug-hunted. The only drawback of sam460 is that it have issues with coherence so current 3D drivers don't have GART enabled, resulting in pretty low FPS in 3D games. But in others it's ok.
Someone may tell you that Tabor have "SPE" and it is good and all that, but, software should have made use of it, to have benefits from. Just like it was with Altivec : just very little apps use it in the end, so with Tabor you will be left with:
1. what is works without FPU 2. what will work with FPU emulated 3. things which simple refuse to work with FPU emulated or buggy or pure unusable because of speed.
With Sam460 all software from os4depot will work with no problems (except of bad FPS of 3D stuff).
But again, if we consider that it's all hobby for mature man who have a money and job, then X5000/020 is the better choose (i say specially 020, because with 040 models there seems some issue somewhere about memory bandwidth, making some stuff on 040 be slower than on 020, yeah, strange, but that it).
I do have pegasos2, sam460, x1000 and x5000 : x5000 the best one in all fronts: fast boot times, fast everyday use, fast drivers, fast kernel, all fine and works as it should.
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