Sam460 V Mac Mini G41.5

[takemehomegrandma]

How does the Sam460 hold up to a Mac Mini witha G4 at 1.5mhz anyone have a idea??

Thanks

The Mac Mini is at least 2x as fast, probably more in some circumstances. This becomes very obvious when for example watching videos (under MorphOS the Mini can play most x.264 720p streams without frame skipping) and browsing websites of the heavier kind. MorphOS has pretty solid support for the Mac Mini HW, the GFX is for example completely supported (2D + 3D acceleration, Overlay), even the Airport Extreme WiFi card (if present) is supported.

The Mac Mini is a very cool little machine. It's compact and powerful - in PPC terms of course (which honestly is quite weak by today's standards, but then again, the Sam460 is less than half as powerful, so...)

MorphOS is by far the best Amiga NG OS in existence; compared to OS4 (I have both) it has more features, it has better features, it has all the best Amiga standards built in (like Poseidon, CGX, etc, etc), it has better Amiga compatibility, it supports a lot more HW (both in terms of systems and peripheral HW), yet it costs a lot less, and it even comes with a 30 minutes unlimited "try before you buy" demo mode.

To me it's a no-brainer, go for the Mac Mini (if you can find the 1.5/64MB VRAM model). Or why not a laptop? MorphOS supports plenty of models! But if you still want to go the Sam460 route, then you will probably be pleased to know that MorphOS will soon support that HW as well, perhaps already in the next release even...

Happy Hunting!

[takemehomegrandma]

You need a fast G4 to measure up, not just anyone

The 1.5GHz Mac Mini *does* have a fast G4, AFAIK only some PowerBook models (and third party Power Mac CPU modules) are faster. The fastest G4 PowerBook laptops beats (or runs on par) the X1000 in most CPU intensive tasks, the Mac Mini shouldn't fall that far behind.

I don't think there is any G4 dual core MacMini's.

Amiga is single core.

Period.

Anyway G5's are more simular to the PA6T.

In an Amiga context (single core, 32-bit, etc), the fastest G4 Macs are faster than the X1000. And the later G5 models runs it into the ground.

(And just as a parenthesis to illustrate where "the world" is today (while PPC "Amigas" has remained in 2005), the "A8" ARM CPU developed in-house by Apple and used in the iPhone 6 scores just below a 2.5GHz G5 in spec int... )