Hi everyone!
I'm going to buy an old powermac g4 (400 mhz, 512 ram,radeon 9xxx) and give MorphOS a try.
What performance should I expect? Will I be able to watch divx movies at fullscreen? And play 3D games ? Would you compare it to running gnome/linux on, let's say, 1ghz pentium3 box?
Fullscreen or not won't be the issue here, since the video player (mplayer) uses overlay and scaling/stretching is entirely done by gfx card hardware in this case.
As for the codecs & resolution, you can easily play 640x360 h264 on such a machine, and 640x480 divx/xvid as well.
On the other hand DVD playback will be a bit too much (except if done from hard disk), and obviously any more demanding stuff like 720p h264 files and co will be too slow.
As for 3d games, i guess quake3 shouldn't behave too bad. To be checked.
And compared to a gnome/1GHz PIII, well, the PC has a clear advantage about raw cpu power, but the linux UI (gnome in this case) is way less responsive, so i'd say MorphOS would win on the responsivity anyway, but you'll have to try and see for yourself.
