AROS Hardware Poll

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Well it isn´t. AmigaOne, Peg2 or a cheap iMac is (I don´t have any of those yet though).

It´s one important detail these three systems have in common and it´s the prosessor. We should support it to get the price down. Wintel has to much power in the market.

 

Important point to note: The A1 and the Peg already have "Amiga Like" OS's... and how do you think Dammy could sell a Mac, preinstalled with AROS without Apple getting a bit pissed off... not to mention for a reasonable price.

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I vote for a laptop without a floppy drive.

Currently it wont boot on my floppyless laptop
It gets stuck in endless loop seeking the missing
floppy!

Loki

I had this problem, though not on my Laptop, I cured it but switching support for a floppy drive on in the BIOS even though no Floppy drive was on the machine... AROS worked fine after that :-)

-Edit- As always, use the latest build of AROS.

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A "refurbished" mac with AROS on it sounds like a possible business opportunity to me. If it´s bought from Ebay or something, apple won´t care.

Nice idea, but someone would have to get hold of the hardware docs for these macs :-)

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No go!

Here's the deal:

The floppy can't be disabled or enabled.

Floppy access is external USB only.

CMOS can't be accessed as usual at boot-up (at least I have not figured out how to do so).

There is a hardware settings app in the windows control panel to change boot priorities and there is no option that does not include floppy.

Most new laptops (and some desttops) do not come with floppy drives anymore. USB floppys are used if needed.

I feel that an endless loop condition is a BUG that should be fixed.

Laptops are fast becoming the computer of choise as their prices continue to drop. Most will not come with built-in floppy drives and hense wont work with the current state of AROS.

Hmmm, you are a bit stuck then... I must say it's odd thoguh, I've tried the Latest build on two Laptops now (neither with a Floppy drive) and had no problems what so ever.

One of those laptops is my own and you can see it here, running fine no floppy drive in sight!



AROS Laptop