Ben Hermans still staunchly against x86

[runequester]

Insane, I agree.

But those things are at least collectibles. Personally, I see a lot more value in an A4000T than an "Teron/AmigaOne" for instance. Don't you?

The route Hyperion is on is very difficult to understand. They deliberately opt out safe, easily obtainable HW that everyone can find and afford, in favor of something "new" (albeit not performance wise) hence unproven, at a price that most people consider being science fiction, and totally out of reach.

I am still puzzled why?

But reconnecting to the topic of this thread - When Hyperion isn't even considering the *PPC* mainstream HW options, what are the chances that they will ever consider the x86?

well, they still sell OS4 for the SAM boards so they have that as income as well. The X1000 won't be the primary or presumably even main machine for OS4

As for why they aren't to X86, I am guessing the same reasons I suspect Morph OS isn't moving to x86. A ton of work, with uncertain return on investment, competition with AROS, a much bigger pond to swim in etc.

Who knows?

[runequester]

?? Pentium IV's ALU runs twice the marketed clock speed btw.

My point, the RISC adventure was a waste of time.

these things weren't as clear as they are in hindsight.

And well, there's a crapton of power PC processors being sold for the gaming consoles. I'd imagine more than enough to keep someone employed.

The desktop computer market isn't everything.

[runequester]

No, it would rather be: why does the A600 costs the price of a 386, the 386 being the equivalent of the A4000 ?

If amigas had been too cheap, they'd have been too awesome, and the Bruce Willis would have had to step in.


Just saying.

[runequester]

Looking at the Sam board prices just shows that Acube are charging massively. Why that actually is, may be debatable. But it isn't because the ppcs are so damn pretty expensive.
Unfortnately it is not that easy to obtain price quotes for the 460 (last price I found was about 100 US$ in small quantities, but it wasn't precisely the model Acube is using. Probaly that price is a good guess anyway). And if the 460 was that expensive then the big qestion is: why on earth use that chip when there are enough other ppc chips available?

Part of it, as far as I understand, is a lot of the work is apparently done in Italy rather than China.