Efika2 - what do you make of this?

[koaftder]

Efika2?

Linux on a crappy underpowered ppc board? No thanks.

[koaftder]

Tigger wrote:
I expect by the end of the year you'll have AROS and MorphOS running on it, so that makes it pretty cool, and frankly complaining about a product moving forward is silly, its what we should want from our hardware.  Do you also get upset that noone makes 40 Meg drives anymore, they have gone to those Terrabyte sized ones now, for cheaper then I bought my first 40 Meg drive for and much faster and much much more reliable.    
   -Tig

Expectations are cheap.

[koaftder]

I don't see the point of jacking off to a low end ppc board. Who cares if it runs Aros? I think its good the code base support multiple procs. I'm not buying a crappy ppc board to run aros when I can literally pickup a second hand PC from a thrift shop for 50 bucks that would blow it out of the water in performance.

Until MorphOS ships with the Efika, it's an exercise in masturbation, period. And it's still an exercise in masturbation to pay good money to run MOS on a low end ppc board.

If you want Aros, don't bother with this board. If you want MorphOS, i understand that, but don't buy this hardware until MorphOS ships with it. Who the hell buys a product that doesn't do what they want on the promise that it will sometime after they buy it?

[koaftder]

Look, I'm just saying it doesn't make sense to pine over a board that isn't all that interesting, it's just one board in the giant sea of embedded hardware. I'm not going to buy an Efika on the promise that the software I want to run is going to exist at a later date. This is AmiLand, the land of broken promises.

Lots of people around here bough an efika when it first came out. What do they have right now? A low end ppc linux box. I just can't get pumped up over a low end linux box. I got lots of crap boxes floating around here, i just don't need another linux box. I don't need a mos box either, but i'll buy an efika when it comes with MOS in the box just 'cause it'll be fun.

@bbrv, thats cool the stuff with NI. There are certainly more folks out there looking for labview solutions than amiga oriented customers.