A-EON Technology secures graphic card support for AmigaOS 4

[Piru]

Communications about this whole matter could have been handled better, preferably as a joint statement from all involved parties, and with detailed and unambiguous explanations for all paths users might take.

Now it's just extremely confusing, and leaves a lot of room for misinterpretations.

[Piru]

The developer has just made a new blog entry.

http://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/radeonhd-driver/radeonhd-development-log/new-blogentry/

I'm not sure if I interpret this part correctly:

A-Eon Technology naturally needs to recuperate their costs, and hence the driver is available for a fee to AmigaOS 4.1 owners. Those with an AmigaOS 4.2 license (i.e., A1-X1000 owners) naturally have already paid for their updates.

Does this mean that the £28.85 will be rebated if/when you get the OS 4.2 license?

Also, does one get a coupon and a t-shirt?

[Piru]

All PPC Macs are cheap but all but G5 are outdated to X1000.

I don't know why you decided to bring this up in this thread, but I found out that my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz is actually faster than X1000 in most tasks. I also have some benchmark results to back this up.

If being "outdated" means "faster", as well as "cheaper", where's the problem again? Support? I doubt A-Eon or Amigakit can compete with apple repair network...

[Piru]

Currently yes, but hardware side is hardware side. On Debian Wheezy where all RAM and both cores are utilized test are more realistic.

And what do we get "right now" is what matters (as I remember this was the argument for going for the payment scheme for these 2D drivers, too. To get them out "right now" instead of waiting). I can run Linux on some 6 core i7 box. Who cares about linux...

PPC Macs have no battery or spare parts support at all

Lets see maybe some parts for my PowerBook G4 15"?
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple_laptop/batteries/PowerBook_G4_15_AL
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/Powerbook-G4-Aluminum-Service-Parts---15-Models----Replacement-Parts-For-Repair-p-1-c-408.html
http://www.apfelklinik.de/catalog/index.php/cPath/49_51
http://www.ifixit.com/Mac-Parts/PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-15%22

MOS should go X1000 and Trevor can donate a board.

No we won't go for such insane HW, sorry. Insanely expensive, not providing significantly better performance and a dead end product (PA6T is dead and X1000 is likely already in the process of being replaced with something else). Thanks, but no thanks, I can think dozens of better ways to spend our resources than wasting it on this dead corpse of a computer.

Apple repair net no longer deals with anything PPC for few years

There are gazillion of repair companies still offering repairs for PPC macs. There are some many of these machines still in circulation that the support is excellent considering the age of the HW.

Try getting support for X1000 after 7 years.

, so A-EON and AmiKit are better then 3rd party rip offs that charge $200 for laptop battery.

$99 for a new battery with 1 year guarantee doesn't quite equate to "$200 rip off" in my books.

On the other hand look at the prices of the phase5 hardware for instance. They go higher than original price these days. Custom HW just doesn't make any sense.

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