Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970

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reflect wrote:
I'm a little surprised by the negativity here. It's not like it's an impossibility that there will be a G5 based Amiga in the future, and to not make plans now towards the future, is pure stupidity. And, "plans" in this case is sketches, remembering what was tough to bring forth with the A1 so that it can be avoided for the next time, etc etc etc.

I think one of the issues here, is that while there is no doubt that a PPC970 (I'm loathed to use the Apple G5 term) machine which is able to run OS4 will be available in the future. The question becomes when... MAI have not proven themselves to be very swift with products in the past, they will need to work triple time to restore confidence in them.

The offical "Amiga" technology is now generations behind the leading edge. Had the orginal machines been in such a position I would never have bought one.

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dammy wrote:
by Seehund on 2004/1/2 16:37:55

But there IS a "G5 Amiga" already, since almost half a year. Apple sold 667,000 PowerMacs last year, of which a sizeable chunk are G5 PowerMacs.

LOL!  Don't forget to include C3 mobo and a Opteron mobo as AROS 1s.

hmmmm... an AROS1?? :-)

Like this I suppose

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minator wrote:

The reason computers take so long to boot up is because of hardware tests and verification.  So long as a system has to check to see if you've swapped your video card since the last time you boot up, systems will always take a minute or so to start.

BeOS could boot in 20 seconds or less, MorphOS boots in 5 seconds, both check the hardware.  So, no thats not the reason bootup time takes so long.

It depends on the hardware. Some PCI hardware seems to take ages to return after it's been probed.