Would you buy a new PPC laptop, if A-Eon made one?

[Rob]

The only realistic option is to pick out a cheap laptop, buy a stack of them and design a replacement PPC motherboard.

An HP 255 G3 is a good choice because it can be bought retail for £200 and comes with 4GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a DVDRW that can all be re-used along with the case, PSU, battery and keyboard, screen.

It would probably better to get a Acube to design something around an AMCC or possibly LSI PPC SOC.  I think some mid range Radeon mobility would be a good idea since we already have the drivers and a mobility chip will have the circuitry for driving the laptop screen.

The Sam460CR 1.1Ghz with 4.1FE is listed at £436.59 (£523.91 with 20% VAT)  So I think Acube could do a replacement laptop board with OS4 for under £800 retail  So a l think under £1100 for a complete ready to run system is a realistic possibility.

[Rob]

I've got two PPC based laptops (iBook and Powerbook) running MorphOS. I will not pay 25x or 50x more to buy a new one. Just port OS4 to iBook/Powerbooks and I would buy a licence. On ebay are so much Apple PPC notebooks that is by far enough for everybody who wants one for OS4.

It won't happen because it would immediately undermine sales of Sam and X1000 and X5000 hardware.  

I think it could be done for under $1500 if they went to route I suggested but I realise that it sill still be more than many can afford stomach but I think it would at least be possible to break even.  

Even $2500 would be too high for everyone but a very select few.