Latest G4's running at 1.43Hhz

[Waccoon]

Surprise, surprise.  Amiga didn't want X86, they wanted PowerPC... and this is what happened.  Here people are drooling over 1.4 Ghz PowerPC chips that will never become available to the Amiga community.  That's what you get when you use proprietary hardware.

I use lots of proprietary hardware at my job, and it's very frustrating knowing that an ATA133 card you can get for $25 will outperform the old striped RAID SCSI controller your vendor gave you in that $10,000 workstation (several years ago).  I'd love to just put together a new system, but I can't because the software is hard coded for the hardware.  Custom firmware is good.  Proprietary hardware sucks.

As for the Apple overclocking issue (from Page 1), I thought one of the things people were complaining about was the option for haveing a cool-running, very reliable system, as opposed to those "haphazard" X86 systems built to last 6 months.  Sure, let's put a copper HSF on the PowerPC and overclock it until it explodes, and MAYBE it will be half the CPU the AMD Barton will be next month...

...but, hey, it's all OK 'cause it's under warantee!  It's not like your data is actually, y'know... IMPORTANT.

Sorry I'm so bitchy tonight, but I've just had enough of the AmigaOne.  It's a nice upgrade for old PPC Amiga users, but Amiga's future won't have anything to do with PowerPC and Amiga Inc. knows that all too well.  It's just too damned expensive.

[Waccoon]

Strobe:  If Apple tries to compete with Windows they're dead.

For the last time... X86 IS NOT WINDOWS!!!

Mac hardware is identical to PC hardware except for the CPU and the case.  People use Macs for MacOS.  They can convert to MIPS if they want to.  So long as it runs MacOS, it's still a Mac.

Mac is already competing with Windows.  Just because they use PowerPC makes them immune to a company that owns 95% of the PC market?  Please...

All the rest of the world uses X86, including other OS vendors.  It's the most widely supported CPU in the world.  Not everyone likes it, but it works.

MacOS is the only thing that matters for the Mac market, just like AmigaOS is the only thing that matters for the Amiga market.  All this talk of Supirior Hardware is really making me sick.  I don't care what kind of hardware is realeased if I can stop using Windows, but I'm sure not going to pay through the nose for an old, slow machine.