MorphOS 2 vs. AmigaOS 4.1 (pros/cons)

[KimmoK]

@zylesea

"better hardware support" Both are pathetic in that. Both have only one board available to buy, both dream about the not-anymore-in-production MacMini.

"While the Sam may be a nice board its price/performance ratio is really poor" Exactly the same goes also for Efika. Efika cost less but also gives less.

If HW has to be taken into account in choosing the OS, I would go (I went) for SAM because it fills the minimum specs of a usable NG Amiga desktop. 128M RAM is not enough and one PCI slot should be free for expansion, etc...

Otherwise, I think MOS2.x and AOS4.x are both good options as the next gen AOS.

[KimmoK]

@Piru

I know MOS already runs in a usable way on MacMini, even though the version is not yet released.
(IIRC, AOS4 has been made to boot on MacMini only as an guick and dirty experiment)

But my point is that it's not a huge advantage because PPC Macintoshes are no longer in production etc.


PEG2 was pretty much superior to the current offerings. I wonder if there is further production run in plans?

[KimmoK]

@Piru

Not going to argue further about currently not existing advantage...


but...

It seems that it is possible to buy second hand G4 MacMini for the price of a new Efika. But MOS is not yet available for MacMini.

When will it be? Any rough deadline set yet?

(not going to buy any hardware that does not have any usable AmigalikeOS)

update:
According to the official information, MOS supports only Efika and Pegasos1&2. Is the classic Amiga support discontinued?
http://www.morphos.de/hardware.html

update:
Found a collection of MacMini specs:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/index-macmini.html

It seems that the 1.5Ghz version is the only sensible option. But some MOS guys say that 128M is minimum for accelerated Ambient whatever? Macmini never had that much??

[KimmoK]

@Piru

Ok, you did it. :-x

I hope your talks about future MOS release for MacMini are not pure vapor because I think I just became a owner of 1.4Ghz MacMini for 205€.

(so I will dress in RED and BLUE in the future ?) :crazy: