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Offline r06ue1Topic starter

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Would You Buy?
« on: February 09, 2011, 12:27:26 PM »
If OS 4.x were made to run directly on x86/64 hardware, would you buy it?
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Re: Would You Buy?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 12:32:17 PM »
I voted yes.  The reason, x86/64 hardware is everywhere, you can get it pretty cheap and there currently is no other hardware platform that can compete with it (hoping Nvidia can make ARM an option here though in the future).  I would run this on PC hardware and very rarely run Windows at home again (need to for my online game).  With Amiga OS 4.x running on x86/64, you could also run Windows or Linux software on it with some additional software such as a VM.
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Re: Would You Buy?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 07:11:55 PM »
Very interesting responses, thank you all for your responses.  
 
I was actually quite surprised by some of the responses but I do understand them.  I have to admit I thought more people would be enthusiastic about the move to cheaper hardware but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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