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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« on: April 19, 2012, 09:40:46 PM »
I'm still tentatively interested, assuming they ever actually get around to doing it...
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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 12:11:12 AM »
Quote from: bbond007;689709
They won't....

A low-cost portable OS4 compatible computer has too much chance (however slight) of being an actual success for them to ever risk releasing it.
Heh, no kidding...you have to wonder what goes on in their heads...
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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2012, 03:13:45 AM »
I wouldn't assume it's out of production if they've removed older models from their site but not that one. (And it's not the only PPC machine on their site, there's also this thing.) Though there's so little information on production or ordering that it's hard to say one way or the other. S'pose someone could email them and ask...

Edit: Okay, I emailed them. Dunno if/when I'll get a response, though.
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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2012, 05:00:07 AM »
Beating a dead horse makes a very satisfying thud and doesn't harm a living thing!
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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2012, 02:18:09 PM »
Does Timberwolf coordinate with TenFourFox at all? They know their stuff over there; I've run modern TenFourFox versions usably on a 500MHz G3, and quite satisfactorily on a 1GHz G4.
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Re: The OS4 Notebook
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2012, 05:09:00 PM »
Ah, but that's an undead horse. Completely different.
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