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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« on: June 19, 2008, 02:30:16 PM »
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Martin_Lee wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/

The CherryPal folks stripped out 80 per cent of the usual PC innards, leaving a case, a chip, a couple USB ports and a monitor port. The system runs on a Power architecture-based 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e chip, ships with 4GB of Flash storage and has 256MB of memory.


So why would I want it over my iPhone.. which has similar specifications... but 8gig flash (soon to be 16 :-D) a modern, well supported web browser and is fully portable?

I honestly can't see what the hell CherryPal are trying to do here?

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 03:16:58 PM »
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I bet I can write letters faster with a desktop computer connected to a proper monitor using a proper keyboard than you using a touch-screen :-)


Hmmm... good point... But I write a hell of a lot of Emails and even this post on my iPhone... I'm pretty quick on it now...

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I wouldn't like to use bittorrent/emule with an iPhone :-P


I wouldn't want to use bittorrent/emule on that Cherry thingie either... it's not really suited to serious desktop usage... which is why I compared it to my iPhone and not my Mini-ITX (for example)