FS: Rare MAC-Mini G4 w/registered MorphOS

[bbond007]

I'm tempted but will have to pass.

You should get it.

The most "silent upgrade" 1.5 models come with 64mb VRAM where as the 1.42 only provides 32.

Heck, I paid $250 just for MOS with the USD being worth less at the time I assume.

[bbond007]

For $300, I'll take it Ed! Payment sent!

@JJ, we had been working out the details for a couple of days, but this last incentive was too good to pass up  

Thats a great deal for you! You'll like MorphOS on it much more than the efika! I guess 128mb vram is nice, but You hit that 128mb ram and 1.1 usb wall pretty quickly with efika.

For the price, I would have strongly considered it! The 1.5 is the fastest (amiga like) hardware you can get...

Not so much for the CPU speed but for the more VRAM. Running mplayer I run out of Vram and get strange artifacts. Turning off the MUI desktop enhancements really helps. You may want to do that anyway.

Also there are loads of youtube videos with os4.0 running on the 1.5 Mini...

Maybe some day ... good purchase!

[bbond007]

LOL! Yeah, never had to purchase a Linksys or otherwise wireless hub since I use Mac's and they all have that capability built in    

Why computers (especially Mac's) don't yet have cable or DSL modems built in is kind of befuddling though. When it comes to modern computing, I abhor having a desk full of extra doo-dads that require their own power supplies. :mad:

doo-dads with wall warts...

yep

[bbond007]

Sorry for the fancy speak bbond007!  :lol:

(I say "yep" too whenever I hear people talking about Wal-Mart or today in fact, when I heard the President say: "Tom Middlesex is in 'da house"!  Gotta love the bastardization of our language.

@Tone007: I never leave my computers plugged in and turned on 24/7. Horrible practice IMO. 1/2 the day though, I do leave my main system running in and out of sleep as I need it. BTW: I was unaware that PC's now come standard with wireless cards and can be used to setup a wireless LAN scenario. Must be a relatively new standard as the last time I looked at a PC (few years ago), they weren't yet included.

save2600,

I was more talking about every different device needing a different AC/Adapter (aka "Wall Wart"). Different sized plug, different voltage, polarity, etc... Annoying.

Also, don't expect the Minig4 with MorphOS to get wireless or bluetooth... You'll have to be tethered via the rj45.

[bbond007]

Ahh... lol  Gotcha. Well hopefully, MorphOS will continue to mature and take better advantage of some of this hardware as time goes on. One of the reasons I hesitated making this purchase was because of the new X1000 machine coming out. I wonder how the popularity of a modern AmigaOS would affect development at this stage. Perhaps they're different enough in their marketing and targets to be safe for a while.

Morphos HD access on the mini requires way less cpu overhead than the efika (probably uses DMA or something), so even that is a benefit.

I doubt the x1000 will make any difference to Morphos. I think its price tag is going to be too high for major acceptance. Also, that GPU thing they are pushing - Nobody can explain to me what its good or useful for.

Now if they built a PPC MB with big FPGA for OCS/AGA/Paula emulation... that would be worth the extra bucks to me..