If they are going to sell Amithlon /A-OS 3.9 laptops with Celerons and P4's, aren't those laptops (and perhaps desktops) going to undermine AmigaONE/OS4 sales ? (As they are going to be faster)
Not in the short term, since Berniethlon doesn’t accelerate AmigaOS’s APIs in native speed(4).
I’m assuming that native API accelerated systems maybe faster than the current JIT only solutions(3).
IF we factored in the extreme competition between x86 CPU manufactures and their constant release (2) of “faster” CPUs (relative to PPC(1)), this native API acceleration advantage maybe narrowed in the long term i.e. extremely high clocked(2) x86 CPUs running of AmigaOS via 68k-JIT emulation.
1. In the context of PPC CPUs + motherboard falls within the Desktop/Consumer price segment. It’s a futile exercise if one referrs to current IBM’s Power Series CPUs or nonexistent “Cell” CPU.
2. It is speculated that AMD may have Athlon 3000+ by the end of this year (just in time for XMAS), since they have 2100Mhz at this time (can be over clocked to ~2400Mhz with Tbred-B).
3. Refers to the current x86 CPU releases i.e. AMD Athlon 2600+(~2100Mhz), Intel Pentium 4 2800A Mhz.
4. In the context of the current part release and upgrade pace of PPC i.e. at this time the fastest G4 is ~1250Mhz (as I recall).
It would be an interesting match up between native/AOS4.0/PPC600Mhz/mobo VS Berniethlon/AOS3.9/K7Tbred2200+/mobo VS Berniethlon/AOS3.9/PIV2500Mhz/mobo in terms price and speed.
