ARM for the future?

[ElPolloDiabl]

x86 has and continues the brute force approach.
In the old days you had to think long and hard which platform you wanted, because of the low chance of software getting ported.

The only thing you have to think about now is whether you want to buy a locked down nanny you gadget or if you want an open one. There is a high chance cross platform software. Directx coming to Linux is a nice one.

Developers big and small make an effort to port there stuff to both Mac and Windows. On a smaller level also to an iphone.

If you want something bloated you can have Windows or Linux (lite versions yeah got it). It would not be an Amiga experience unless the OS is very lean or very easy to make lean.

My vote is for ARM because you could make it feel like an olde Amiga. x86 PC still seems like a frankenstein monster...You're forever configuring drivers or altering the bios whenever you plug something in or reinstall the OS.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Err I'm reading some important documents as I was typing so I'm distracted, not drunk.

Directx link:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/directx-11-coming-to-linux-games-to-follow-whoa-slow-down-there/9776

[ElPolloDiabl]

Nah, it wont. ARM doesnt come close to high end x86 gear. Also x86 of today shares very little in common with x86 of yesteryear, so saying youre sick of x86 since you bought your first pc is like saying youre sick of a different cpu compared to what what is your 1st pc.

I probably shouldnt be surprised to see this kind of garbage on an Amiga site though.

He might mean to program on. Or maybe he's had a series of buggy computers. You do have to be careful choosing your parts because some, usually cheap mfgrs parts will give you trouble.

Do you remember the old celeron with it's gimped 66mhz bus? At the same time the Pentium II use to cost a fortune. How about all those overclocked and rebadged CPUs before intel and AMD started locking them. Intel did a share swap with RAMBUS and tried to push their serial memory.
I can see how someone could have a bad opinion x86s.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Hey, sorry if this has been posted before (i didn't search because i don't really care too much about arm stuff)

anywhooo I came across this site whist searching for casemod stuff and its only 150bucks. and it has opengl, may be cool for what you guys are talking about.

 http://beagleboard.org/hardware

its called the beagleboard and it has some pretty cool specs (maybe i will get interested in arm)

actually here is the main site they have one available for 125. oh and this thing runs linux.

http://beagleboard.org/

I'm impressed by the graphics... nearly Geforce2 speed. Run a resource lean OS like Amiga on it and you have a late 90s era gaming rig.

If we can concentrate on the essentials: web browser and plenty of driver support. Photo and video editing. You've then got the basic appliance which passes as a modern computer. Minus the resource hogging Windows. btw my Ubuntu 9.04 install uses about half the resources of even Windows XP.