MorphOS : PowerMac G5 Port Update

[haywirepc]

This is great news. I miss Piru posting here... Guess he's busy with coding.

G5 G5 G5

I can't wait... Quad core g5's are pretty cheap... Though I know morphOS will only support one core I figure I can triple boot linux, macosx AND morphOS, so I 'd still prefer a quad core, because I'd like to be able to use final cut on macosx.

Pyromania, It should work with MorphOS, but only one core will be supported.

[haywirepc]

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Originally Posted by takemehomegrandma  
Wow, the 2.5GHz G5 is TWICE(!) as fast as the X1000 in the lame test
Correction: Make that THREE TIMES as fast!

Holy Crap Batman!


Really? 3x as fast? Even if its twice as fast thats funny. 3,000$ custom designed "amigaone" beaten in processor speed by double or triple by a 200-300$ ebay mac g5? Thats so funny... Unless you bought an x1000 I guess.

AOS really needs good cheap hardware.... I really hope Hyperion take their heads out of their asses someday.

[haywirepc]

Yes but that is a funny couch... Doesn't look too comfortable though...

[haywirepc]

They would not have gained anything. The PA6T is a castrated chip.
It was designed to be low heat, low power consumption for laptops. I don't think it was ever intended to be used in a desktop pc.

G5 blows it away. Apple needed to solve the heat problems with g5 and keep going with it.... X86 was just the easier (cheaper) way to go...

I like the power pc design but Intel and AMD just win on pure processing power, and when your manufacturing computers,thats what its all about, the cheaper faster cpu will always win.

As far as amiga os and smp, its got to be done eventually. Some companies
are now selling 12 core (or more even) machines. No one will want to be stuck with a one core machine/os. (Not unless amiga moves to a 36ghz single core processor. :razz:

Besides this, smp is just a beautiful thing. Stupid to ignore that tech and all that power just to preserve compatibility for an api from 1985.