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Offline Yasu

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Re: New ppc board by Acube/A-Eon: A1222 "Tabor"
« on: October 17, 2015, 10:30:55 PM »
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1. I don't like AROS
2. Not comfortable buying big old MACs that weigh a ton and have them shipped from halfway Europe (these are impossible to find in my country) and I want something better than a Mac mini...


A Mac Mini is really not bad. Thanks to Altivec it's pretty much as fast or faster than the X5000 (at least the 1.5 GHz model). A G5 is of course much faster, but it got so much wasted potential (no 64 bit, no SMP) and the hardware is not as reliable.

My Mac Mini is my favourite PPC mac to date :)
 

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Re: New ppc board by Acube/A-Eon: A1222 "Tabor"
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2015, 07:28:06 AM »
True, VRAM is a problem on Mac Mini. Thankfully 64 MB is enough. And yes, the Powerbook isn't bad at all. It can even substitute for a desktop (it got DVI connectors).
 

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Re: New ppc board by Acube/A-Eon: A1222 "Tabor"
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2015, 11:46:08 AM »
The Team are already working on it, but there will probably not be any big announcement until it's finished or almost finished. From the end user perspective it will be like it suddenly appears.
 

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Re: New ppc board by Acube/A-Eon: A1222 "Tabor"
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2015, 12:20:08 PM »
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not "the team" but one developer (as I understand it) and it is still years away (geit)


Bigfoot is the main developer there, and while it's possible it's just him working on it he is not working in a vacuum. He still needs or will need the other Team members with him on this.