New pricing announced for MorphOS

[agami]

Nobody caught the fact that there is no X5000 pricing. I'm guessing that the price drop is indeed a precursor to announcing Morphs 3.10. And since most of the work over the past year has been about the X5000 it wouldn't make sense to charge people with G4/G5 Macs the full price.

[pVC]

Wireless on my MacMini (1.5Mhz edition) have been working for quite a while now, cant remember from which version it started to work. But perhaps they did use different wifi chipsets in some models?

I don't think there are different chipsets... I think all internal wireless interfaces should already be supported in Mac minis, IBooks, and PowerBooks. Only thing that some models didn't come with internal WLAN by default. All 1.5GHz minis came with Airport, but lower specced models had it only optionally.

[kolla]

"Airport" is Apple's euphemism for wifi - there is no "airport chipset", just regular wifi chipsets from the usual vendors, different from model to model. For example, G4 mac minis typically have a BCM4306 chipset from Broadcom on the PCI bus.

[Templario]

Good news!

[Iggy]

Nobody caught the fact that there is no X5000 pricing. I'm guessing that the price drop is indeed a precursor to announcing Morphs 3.10. And since most of the work over the past year has been about the X5000 it wouldn't make sense to charge people with G4/G5 Macs the full price.

The X5000 license may carry a premium.
But we won't know until the day its released.
According to the few developers I know its not ready for release yet.
And while the X5000 port is one focus, they won't release until the new version works on all supported systems.
So there could be issues unrelated to the X5000.

[duga]

Wake me when it gets to E49 for all systems... I thought it was E79 anyway, was it even more? Not interested yet...

It was €111 at most.

[LoadWB]

"Airport" is Apple's euphemism for wifi - there is no "airport chipset", just regular wifi chipsets from the usual vendors, different from model to model. For example, G4 mac minis typically have a BCM4306 chipset from Broadcom on the PCI bus.

When I get time to work on them again I will start a new thread for assistance with my WiFi.  I have been running MorphOS on the MacMini since around 3.2 and it's been upgraded with every release.

EDIT: Ha!  MacMini wireless is working for me, so there we go.

[Lizard]

It was €111 at most.

That's not true, €111,11 was the introduction price, see the Morphos 2.0 announcement:

Please note that a MorphOS 2.0 key is available at 111,11 EUR (includes 19% VAT) as an introductory offer. On Tuesday, the 15th of July, the price will go up to 150 EUR (includes 19% VAT).

Then with the 2nd anniversary of Morphos 2.x the price was dropped to €111, and with the Morphos 3.0 release the drop became permanent.

[zylesea]

"Airport" is Apple's euphemism for wifi - there is no "airport chipset", just regular wifi chipsets from the usual vendors, different from model to model. For example, G4 mac minis typically have a BCM4306 chipset from Broadcom on the PCI bus.

Aren't all airport extreme cards from Apple's  ppc era broadcom 43xx based? I mean MorphOS supports Atheros 5000 and Broadcom 43xx. And the drivers for these chipsets are rather fine.

[nicholas]

That's not true, €111,11 was the introduction price, see the Morphos 2.0 announcement:
Then with the 2nd anniversary of Morphos 2.x the price was dropped to €111, and with the Morphos 3.0 release the drop became permanent.

I'm sure that 11 cents was a deal breaker for millions.

[pVC]

I'm sure that 11 cents was a deal breaker for millions.

You missed the 150e era, which was there in the quote.

[pVC]

Aren't all airport extreme cards from Apple's  ppc era broadcom 43xx based? I mean MorphOS supports Atheros 5000 and Broadcom 43xx. And the drivers for these chipsets are rather fine.

That's what I meant in my original message before this unrelated thing was picked from it.

[nicholas]

You missed the 150e era, which was there in the quote.

Whoosh!