by bloodline on 2004/1/6 14:38:41
The Best AROS-1 would be one of the Athlon64 Motherboards with integrated Gfx, Audio and networking... that we would know what hardware we are targetting and be able to develop drivers for it.
MY first thought would be one of the amasingly cheap Via Mini-ITX boards, but I would prefer to go 64bit now
Cheapest mobo/athlon 64 is $335 w/o intergrated gfx. I would like to see a pure 64 bit AROS, but that's not going to happen any time soon (unless someone wants to donate a few machines to the devs;). The cheapest Opteron mobo with onboard grx is tyan S2850G2N with ATI Rage (8Megger) for $179.
IMO, too expensive for a AROS-1. AROS being as small foot print, I don't think it's really needing current upper end CPUs. 2200 XP with a MSI mobo would be over kill for $110.
What keeps me wondering is, what gfx card? Unless that nVidia bounty opens on TeamAROS and a dev takes it on, I don't see the major gfx OEMs as reasonable choice for a AROS-1.
Dammy