A suggestion for the new AmigaOne X1000

[Paulie85]

Install Linux on your PS3 and that's what ya got right?

Hmm, this might be a silly suggestion but as the PS3 is PPC-based and has now had the other OS feature hacked. Couldn't Hyperion finish porting OS4 to it, put the PS3 hardware in an Amiga branded case bundling it with OS4 and maybe adding 500gb HD,keyboard etc., then sell this as a fairly decent computer(the X500?) which is also fully compatible with the playstation.
Even with all the peripherals I'm sure it could be sold for under £400, so it would be a cheap and powerful alternative to both and the games are already there.
Not sure about the legalities of that though.

[Paulie85]

Since OS4 doesn't support SMP, the processor in the PS3 wouldn't be able to be utilized as designed and performance wouldn't be so great compared to Linux running on the same machine, if I understand how the PS3's CPU works.

Yeah, but that's being worked on at the moment isn't it?
AmigaOS 4.2


"This will be new release of the AmigaOS, and will most likely not be free. For this one, Hyperion is planning to do some serious plumbing work. SMP support is planned, but this will probably not be completed entirely for the 4.2 release - massive changes like this usually span a number of releases"
(from OS News.com)

[Paulie85]

Yeah, lol, everything on the Amiga takes so long. But he did state that SMP support is one of their targets.I recall one of the programmers stating that the PS3 port would be relatively straight forward so I still say that this is what they should do if they can do so legally. I would definately buy one, I'm sure other people would be interested and they do have up to 30 developers working on OS4 according to the same article . Surely a modern system that plays PS3 games as well as having the computing elements and a large hard-drive at a low price point is a lot more appealing than the current "overpriced and underpowered"  Amiga hardware.