Why no new hardware for MorphOS??

[jj]

I was waiting for this thread to be started.
 
The main reason I would expect would be who needs new hardware.  I doubt anyone in the Morphos wants top pay the prices of the sam when we have more powerful second hand, better designed cheap hardware in lost of quantity.
 
Come on them supply the figures that show how many copies of OS4 have been sold and how many MorphOS ?

[jj]

The MacMini is an awseome piece of kit, small , silent , well designed.  I was sceptical at first.  But people who refuse you Mac hardware are blined by the OS.  Mac Os sucks balls, well I really don't like it anyway, but your only using the hardware.  despite what you think of apple, and i won't buy apple products, they do generally make good looking, robust hardware.

[jj]

My MacMini silent upgrade cost me £150 off ebay.  Took me a while to get one that didnt go for over £200.  It wasn't acutally advertised as the silent upgrade, sellers mistake.   Was well chuffed when i got it.

[jj]

lets be honest  Hyperion sre determined to keep it on new expensive hardware because of deals they have made, its not a piracy issue, its a greed issue at the expense of the AOS4 faithful.  They could have switched to other Hardware ages ago.

[jj]

There is,  I beleive, and I know a lot of people are vocal on this, you have to send the broken hardware to the dev team, and then they will transfer the licence for you to new hardware.  I am hoping in the future theey can think of a better way of doing this.   There must be a wake of revoking a liscence through the net and then sending out a new one

[jj]

What HW are MorphOS supposed to run on, in the future, when applications requires more speed/memory etc. than available on the old Mac hardware?

 
I think if you look at the last of the line PPC Macs there are still pretty tasty for anything Amiga related.  even close to the the specs of the X1000

[jj]

Which is what I was getting at.   We still have a path to and possibly above the lastest and greatest for such a fraction of the cost its silly.

[jj]

they have lots of new hardware to port to if they wish:
- Sam440
- Sam460
& X1000 when it arrives

 
Pretty sure this has been disccussed a lot and there is no need/want to port to this hardware.   Too expensive and in every case faster Mac hardware still to be done.

[jj]

Yes, in the Power consumption at most.
In noise generation as well.
In dust collection benchmarks if you don't clean it often.
 
I see a lot of old mac scrap loving guys. You assume that the old cheap machine is good for you, but for me a new less power consuming machine like AmigaOne X1000 and Sam460 are better purchases, even if more expensive than an old G5 Mac.
 
In two years of usage time, I will pay less for my new AmigaOne hardware, than you for your old Mac, if I calculate the electricity bills in the equations. And I do.
 
If someone else pays your electricity bills, then buying old power un-efficient Macs with CRT is good. Too bad I have to pay my bills by myself, so I can not afford to have old G5 Mac or CRT machine. Will go for the AmigaOne though.
 
Of course my equations will not work for you because:
1. You don't use your MorphOS machine a lot.
2. You don't pay your bills.
3. You hate having new stuff.
4. You want to look cool by showing your friends how your old Mac runs another operating system (how unimpressive).
 
I believe people will be more impressed to see MorphOS running on NEW Apple or other brands hardware, but that is just me.
 
Regards

 
1) who says we dont,  you been hiding in my house or something
2) I have been paying my own bills for 16 years you condescending person
3) What an idiotic thing to say
4)  Dont give a fook for Macs, its just what MorphOS runs on.

[jj]

Apart from  environmental concerns, the power consumption of my computer, tvs and consoles etc are not a financial concern.  I dont need to look at what power they suck up.

[jj]

@ zylesea

Cheers once again, just downloaded the PDF and going to give it a read. You should write a basic introduction to MorphOS for numpties like me, I've learned more about it in your past few posts than I have in my whole time on the net since June of last year...

Franko if none of the the mac you own are supported, I believe you have a PPC card for your A1200.  THere is an older version of MorhpOS for free that will tun on this card.