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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« on: May 08, 2015, 07:25:43 PM »
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Is Amiga NG underpowered and that is why I don't want to buy one?
I hate to troll, but the new PowerPC systems are getting old or seriously old.
Any chance of us moving to an ARM platform?
i don't consider that question trolling at all. it really depends on what you want to do. for me, the next-gen amigas have plenty of power. but then again i'm not using blender to do HD video editing on a regular basis. i have a company-provided PC for all work-related computing. on my next-gen amigas i watch my video collection, do my taxes and home accounting, participate in IRC, browse the web, manage my personal email accounts, figure out my nightly star-gazing, play around with tons of classic amiga apps and games, do digital sketching....

with the possible exception of web browsing, i've never thought, "man, i really need more grunt." but that's just my own use-case. was there something in particular you wanted to do on these machines? maybe that way we could figure out if the next-gen amigas have enough power or not. they make sense for some people (like me) and no sense for others. it just depends.

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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2015, 03:03:32 AM »
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I vaguely remember Hyperion saying they would port it to another system at 'the right price.'
If AROS does half the work of making drivers for an ARM platform, maybe they can work together.
possibly, but i'm not sure the AOS4 development team is all that interested in ARM, especially with new systems in the pipeline. of course AROS is already available for ARM, so if that's your interest, check it out. i haven't used it myself, but my understanding is that on the raspberry pi2, it runs well enough.

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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2015, 06:51:49 PM »
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I prefer OS4 over MOS because the OS3 look&feel on PPC, not because of it's name.
gotta agree with you. i don't know how the meme of OS4 is only because of 'the name' got started, but it's nonsense, at least for me. i have AROS, MOS, and AOS4 machines -- but use AOS4 nearly all of the time because i enjoy using it more. i wouldn't care what they called it.

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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2015, 12:52:57 AM »
@thread

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