melgross: By obsolete, I don't mean that they can't still be used if you have them. I mean that we won't be seeing anything new using those chips.
Well, technically something is obsolete, or outmoded, when it is no longer useful. :-)
Fransexy: On x86 world running windows you always have the perfomance of two generations behind.To run the current version of windows at happily speeds you need the processors of tomorrow and then you will be forced to run a new version of windows that need the next generation chip to run at reasonable speeds and then...........So what´s the point
I think you're still stuck in 1995. Try running Windows98 on a 1Ghz Celeron. Then replace it with WindowsXP. You should notice a huge improvement in performance, even without much more memory usage.
Windows isn't the klunker it used to be, even if the amount of hard drive space it requires is crazy. All of this is the hardware's fault, of course, especially since x86 code is more compact than PPC code. :roll:
Then again, my Mac mini clearly shows that MacOS X alone uses 12GB of space. Windows is far smaller than that. Does anybody complain that MacOS is bloatware? Nah, let's all skewer evil M$.
yak: I don't understand why people think that x86 version of AmigaOS would have to contain drivers for all available PC hardware.
Probably because that's the mistake made by pretty much every commercial OS creater that tries to break into the market. With all the hundreds of OSes out there, you think some companies would figure this out. But no, Microsoft still enjoys its monopoly.
Look at Be. They were selling a proprietary PPC machine for $5,000+, which nobody could afford. Then, they went to Mac clones, and once Jobs killed all of those systems, Be went to "stock" hardware. Why didn't they make a new BeBox using an x86 board and chipset? Why did they waste so much time making drivers? Why did they announce they were going to the "information appliance" market at the very end? Why don't people learn from the mistakes of others?
Fransexy: That´s is what i want to say, AmigaOS on "outdatet" PPC will perform as updated as and awesome ultra modern PC running the ultimate windows
AmigaOS isn't as robust. AmigaOS doesn't have even a fraction of the capabilites of Windows.
It would be more fair to compare AmigaOS to another largely underdeveloped OS, like a heavily stripped, old version of Linux. Yeah, the old version of Linux runs nice and fast, too, but nobody uses it. Guess why.