Now that the Efika costs €75....

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Heh. A couple of Genesi's friends have been posting about Efika at this price in various forums for a long time. It finally happened, that's pretty cool. Guess I'll have to follow through pretty soon and buy one, as I said I would if this price ever actually became real. At least this has finally reached a point where I can consider it as an impulse buy item and not feel too bad if I end up not using it. Hopefully MorphOS ships for the thing so I can see it, the CSPPC MorphOS seemed pretty limited and useless in comparison to the Peg version and I never bothered with it.

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I'm not worried about any race or who wins. If ACK's high-end board ships, I'll probably buy that, regardless of who is first or whatever. I don't even know what I'd use an Efika for, but for $99 I don't need to care. Now, where do I get an IDE buffer to have both HD and CDROM on it?

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I never used PowerUP MOS, but what is different to the Peg version so that it is useless for you.

I was lead to believe by people in the forums that the 3d support wasn't really usable on classic rigs, and one or two other things which I can't remember anymore. Maybe the CVPPC was supported but I didn't have one, but the PCI stuff wasn't going to work. (I have both a Prometheus and a Mediator 3000) OK, well, if I can't do stuff, then there's no point.

That could very well have changed since then, this was just when the 3d stuff came out for MorphOS. I just haven't had time to keep up with all the Amiga-alike OSes and had to choose the one I could use.

Yesterday my supervisor at work talked to me about our new project. I'm supposed to put 100% of my time into this thing, and I'm also supposed to put 100% of my time into supporting the project we're finishing up. Doesn't leave much time for tinkering or hobbies...  :crazy:

Anyway, if MorphOS ships for Efika I hope to play with it at some point. If it doesn't, then my Efika will probably rot on a shelf, because like others I don't need yet another linux box. I've got a PC that is far more useful to me running Linux than Efika would be due to performance and software compatibility for things only available on x86. But for $100 I can afford to let it go unused. For previous pricing I wouldn't go for that.

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Why the red side, all sides of the red side, refuses to use cheap, available, working hardware even to this day is beyond me

Keep in mind that not "all sides" of the red camp are "refusing" to use cheap available working hardware. If it's not available, then it's not refusing for many. I simply cannot do a very good job of doing the impossible and using the kind of hardware you speak of. That's not a great situation either, but there's red people willing but completely unable to run OS4 on Efika.