Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5

[Kronos]

Not all G4s support idling, AFAIK everything QuickSilver or older completly lacks such features (and the fans aren't SW-controllable either). Not sure bout MDD/FW800s.

But don't dispair, that feature runs quite well on Minis,PowerBooks and iBooks where the only CPU is throttled down to keep the fans quieter when idling. So at worst we would have the 2nd G5 tucking along at 10% of it's max speed where it wouldn't do much damage....

[Kronos]

Why people insists of compare prices of new hardware versus used hardware? it's crazy and stupid. it's like compare the price of a old 250 hp car that is cheap versus a new 100 hp new car, sure the later is a bit less powerful and it's more expensive but it is NEW and have NEWER and EFFICIENT technology

Not if the new car is built around a 6 year old engine (used or not, it's still old tech).

[Kronos]

Aren't G3s "oldworld" Macs ? Read Macs that don't use OpenFirmware ?

What kind of GFX chips are utilizied in there ? PCI-ATI-Rage or even more obsolete ?

Sounds like a lot of work for me....


On the other hand:
32MB VMEM MacMini (still much better than anything Rage) go for around 100Euro.
400-800MHz PowerMacs can be had for as little as 40Euro (often less), sure they often also feature an ATI-Rage, but atleast it's AGP and can be easily upgraded to something more sensible.
And finally, the iBook-model Geit demoed both on the last 2 Geit@home and in Bad Bramstedt rarely goes over 100Euro these days (and there is a good chance that some even older/cheaper models will also turn out supported).

Or in short:
G3-Mac-support == total waste of time !