New PowerPC hardware from YDL

[Crumb]

These cpus are more exotic.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ibm/qs22.shtml

$1895 (1200€) wouldn't be much expensive if AmigaOS/MorphOS really ran on it. Compare it to uA1/A1 prices (just motherboards). It's a full computer... unfortunately it doesn't run OS4/MOS so it's totally useless and offtopic for Amiga users.

Mac Pro costs 2450€ in Spain. That's almost twice. Yeah, it's twice the number of cores, but twice the price.

On AmigaOS multiple cores are useless.

For AmigaOS I could live with a single core anyway. Just bloated OSes like OSX require multiple cores to multitask smoothly.

Mac users can visit macworld or something like that to brag about their wonderful 365375-core cpus unless they are planning to port AROS/OS4/MOS to their wonderful machines.

[takemehomegrandma]

Crumb wrote:

$1895 (1200€) wouldn't be much expensive if AmigaOS/MorphOS really ran on it.

Paying that price only to use a fraction of the hardware *is* kind of expensive IMHO. A waste! As would it be to spend the time and money to make "our" OS's running on it in the first place, and that's why this will never happen. Mac Mini is a much better choice then, if you want to have a go on "outsider" hardware...

Compare it to uA1/A1 prices (just otherboards).

Why? A1 prices where absolutely ridiculous, even back then (especially so if you look at what you actually got)!

[Louis Dias]

 :-D

Crom00 wrote:
Actually quite nice setup. Dunno about Hyeprion and OS4 though, with the legal issues it seems more likely that one would be able to draw blood from a stone or create gold out of dog poop.

Nothing's stopping them from reselling it pre-configured with a fully functional AROS port...

Infact, nothing is stopping them from porting their games to AROS(PPC) either...and selling that...

That seems to be a better way to continue a revenue stream...

[zylesea]

Crumb wrote:

On AmigaOS multiple cores are useless.

For AmigaOS I could live with a single core anyway. Just bloated OSes like OSX require multiple cores to multitask smoothly.

Hopes are on the MPC8610 - Low wattage single core G4 with surprising high performance and reasonable price tag.

[weirdami]

motorollin wrote:
...or someone hacks the OS.

Ain't nobody doing that?

[motorollin]

trilobyte wrote:
I'm under the impression that there is no hardware that is *new* and currently under manufacture which can run OS 4.  Maybe I'm wrong...

There isn't. And this machine doesn't change that.

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moto

[keltic]

SteveSMS wrote:
Am i the only one that sees the similarities between this system and IBM's servers and desktops?

Have a look at IBMs Power machines aswell:
IBM Power Express