take into account X1000 has dual core CPU that is yet to be used, much faster RAM, R700 video chip with a ton of VRAM, much more and is quite expandable board, especially when onboard drivers will be done. Board also supports 8GB RAM I believe, so might drive OS4 to brake its own limits in many, many ways (from RAM barreir, SMP, XMOS support, RadeonHD drivers ...)
Yeah, it's always this "is yet to be used", "might", "future", yada, yada. Anyone knowing Hyperion, should really know by now that they love to sell unhatched chickens with great promises, long before the chickens are hatched. Sometimes it turns out in the end that the eggs never was laid, and never will be. Was the Micro A1 GX ever sorted out/fully supported? The driver situation on the Sam? Back in 2009, when the performance of OS4 and MorphOS 2.3 was
compared on exactly the same HW, the reactions from "the red side" was a lot like what you wrote in the quote above; "It's unfair because it's not optimized, 3D will be better", etc, etc. Yada, yada. It never was, 3D is AFAIK pretty much the same, and here you are, cheering for new 3D technologies when Hyperion haven't even shown they can really support the old ones yet. Will you *never* learn I ask myself?
And then you write about SMP, Memory Barrier, etc, etc — lots of stuff that's completely incompatible to Amiga per se. Well, none of this is here, only more promises of more unhatched chickes. Things like true SMP, true MP, removal of the memory barrier/true utilization of the 64bit architecture is nothing you do easily on Amiga. In fact, it can't be done without breaking the "Amiga" part of the OS. And since this *will* require a clean-slate break from the Amiga legacy anyway (it must happen if you decide to go there), with a clearly defined border line marking the "before" and "after", the seemless "Amiga compatibility" with old Apps scrapped post that line, starting anew, I must ask the question:
At that point, why continue the PPC path at all? If you are to break the "Amiga" anyway, why not do it on some *other*/BETTER architecture? Performance wise, and from a desktop Point of View, x86 is much more attractive. Isn't a platform migration the natural thing to do at that point? There is no "Power" in PowerPC, not in the year 2012 and beyond! ARM and/or x86, but not PPC!
Isn't the $3,000 A1X1K *the worst possible* path to go if your goal is to introduce those things into the OS? After sacrificing the Amiga compatibility as we know it, you may (after long hard work) have reached the goals, but then you are *still stuck* on a dead platform, completely without viable motherboards, since there hasn't been any viable desktop motherboards manufactured since Apple dropped out of the PPC architecture half a decade ago, and there never will be! It would be AROS, but without any option of good hardware. You will have your platform chained to a sinking block of concrete. And you think that at $3,000 the concrete block should at least be gilded or something, but it isn't, it's just plain nothing out of the ordinary, old boring concrete from 2007, but it will drown your platform nevertheless...
(BTW: If you think this is going off topic, please feel free to direct your replies to
this thread, which is entirely devoted to this issue, maybe by commenting post #4)
