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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« on: September 25, 2009, 01:11:49 AM »
I dont think ANOTHER motherboard will do anyone any favors.  Nobody cares.


Why not put a pot of $ together for NEW SOFTWARE to be ported or written to OS 4.x and/or MorphOS?

A nice office suite that can read/write Microsoft Office documents, a great multiplayer online game, etc.  Something that shows off what we have NOW.  The hardware is there, the software is not.   Myself, I dont care for another PPC board.  I go where MorphOS goes.  Mac Mini G4? no problem, got 2.
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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 01:14:30 AM »
Please work on funding NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT for the existing 2 OS's we have (MorphOS and OS4.x)
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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 02:24:05 AM »
If Linux and Haiku is your primary goal.. what does your system offer vs. a Atom 330 dual core setup at about $80 ?
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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 02:50:59 AM »
Quote from: persia;523889
haiku ppc?  Isn't that more a dream than a reality?  And linux?  You have yellow dog on ppc and that's about it.  You lose wine and a lot of other pieces of software on ppc.  You gain nothing in return for the losses.  Look at apple, sales have tripled since the intel switchover.  

So you have no os, no laptop support and come in at several times the price of intel, why would anyone give you money for that?


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