Open source PPC laptop bounty

[wawrzon]

The biggest difference is made by 2D compositing, 3D OpenGL ES, and Warp3D Nova (and old Warp3D is coming too), all hardware accelerated by out-of-the-shelf modern Radeon GPUs, a quantum leap forward in the right direction.

but precisely, except 2d compositing, all these are features delivered by rather recent third party extensions to the os, provided by third party. so strictly speaking os4 under winuae must be delivering exatly the essential experience of the os as such.

[wawrzon]

I think they deserve respect not to be considered fancy vanitY.

a lot of stuff is based on vanity, especially around here. but so far i dont see anything i need to respect the ppc notebook initiative for so much. people have been considered this idea for a few years and came now to the conclusion that they need to delagate this to some professional electrical engineer, who of course needs to be paid for his service so they need to gather funds. thats fine, but not respectable.

i respect people like igor or gunnar who pull on complex project, others have deemed impossible.

[wawrzon]

but

 People being caricatures of themselves, preferring style over substance, and judging a computing device on how 'pretty' it is, rather than how functional it is.

on an amiga site?

[wawrzon]

Some reality check. Do you understand that Vampire is not power full enough to general desktop use? This laptop has about 500x more horsepower than Vampire.

and even more reality check:
there already are platforms out there that support laptops more powerful and have better software coverage than ppc laptop may ever receive. if there was any rational reason for a ppc laptop someone would have developed and be selling one. since none did and its even difficult to find interested audience to crowd fund such a project, it has obviously nothing to do with "reality".

[wawrzon]

Either way, to each his own.

sure. just it has nothing to do with any "reality check". according to what people write none behind two amigalike ppc oses has been contacted so far, to check if they would port their system.

[wawrzon]

I always liked the way those looked

it always looked like a toilet seat to me..