Amigaos 4.1 - Intel i5 Mac

[RussellB]

Amiga OS 4.1 will only run AmigaOne, Sam440 and Pegasos 2 boards which are all PowerPC based.

Amiga OS 4.1 will never run on x86 PC or MAC boards.

[RussellB]

There is a version of Amiga OS 4.0 which will run on a 1200 but will need a Blizzard PowerPC board.

http://www.acube-systems.biz/compatibility/

[RussellB]

And this is exactly why they're never going to make a profit off it.

The only way I see them releasing AmigaOS on x86 won't be on a PC or MAC x86 but an Amiga x86 board where they have a fixed set of drivers for 1 board but I don't see that happening in the next 5 years.  

At the moment they don't even have full drivers for the boards they have already got and with 2 new boards being released that is even more work on more drivers.

Even Mac OS x86 doesn't officially run on PC x86 hardware without using something like Hackintosh which only works on certain boards.

[RussellB]

Probably not, but "NEVER" is an absolute that should not be used, specially by someone who is not in control of what boards or CPU's AmigaOS4.x will be ported to in the future.

If AmigaOS does get ported to x86 it definitely won't be AmigaOS 4.1 which is ported to it and probably won't be any 4.x version either.  It would mostly likely be started from 5.0 for such a big change.

[RussellB]

Your only real option for network support is a pcmica card which there is support for certain wired and wireless cards which will mean you will have to use an ide adaptor to use a cd-rom and hard drive off your internal ide port.  

If you are using OS3.0 or 3.1 the normal harddrive limit is 4 GB but it is possible use a patch to support larger harddrives.  If you use OS3.5 or 3.9 this patch is built in to support larger harddrives.