Why no new hardware for MorphOS??

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Last night i was wondering why there is no new hardware for morph os, os4 has the sam440, the new460ex and when available the new x-1000 (plus the old amiga one and micro).. yes i know there are the mac but all this hardware is old and used without any sort of warranty..

My 1.25Ghz eMac cost me $30. I could buy 30 spare computers at this price and still have spent less than a Sam460.
 
BTW, I do not bad mouth Acube. They seem to be a real company with real product and real warranty, something that cannot be said of some previous "Amiga" hardware vendors. I simply have no use or desire for their product.

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I see a lot of folk mentioning cheap Macs here, I don't call the 350 quid I paid a few months ago for this old iMacG5 cheap and you'll very rarely see one going for much less on ebay. So where do you all buy these cheap Macs

The Thunderbird Swap Shop is where I got mine, paid $30 for a 1.25Ghz eMac. I eventually plan on getting a top end G4 Power Mac or possibly a top end G5 Power Mac. From research the G4 will run me $100-$150 max, the G5 would be $200-$350 max. Some people have an inflated view of what their computers are worth, like idiots on Craigslist asking $400 for an eMac. You just have to filter those idiots out and find the real sellers.

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But now I'm worried that the integrated CRT's display is looking fuzzy and there are capacitors on the logicboard that look like they may be bulging.

How good are you with repairs? I have a good spare CRT I'm looking to dump. Cap kits are cheap on eBay.

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I think if you look at the last of the line PPC Macs there are still pretty tasty for anything Amiga related. even close to the the specs of the X1000

I think the high end G5's will outperform the X1000 in many (most?) benchmarks.

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Exactly. It's like when I really wanted to get a TDI here in the states. People were so desperate for them that dealers could and were marking them up 5-10000 dollars ABOVE sticker. Because they could. so, a 24k car turned into a 29-30k car. It would have taken decades to see the money saved in fuel efficiency and repairs. So I went with a 15k rabbit gasser. not nearly as fuel efficient, but really fun to drive.

OT, but I paid $19.2k for my TDI NEW. :afro:

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Of course my equations will not work for you because:
1. You don't use your MorphOS machine a lot.
2. You don't pay your bills.
3. You hate having new stuff.
4. You want to look cool by showing your friends how your old Mac runs another operating system (how unimpressive).
 

Informal warning, stop trolling.

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the G5 really is a power hog. The faster models come with a 600 watt power supply.

My PC with GeForce GTX240 requires a 1,000W power supply. Such is life.

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Hmm. My system has an 850W PSU and I'm using a GTX275. What else do you have in there?

When I built the system I bought the power supply based on the recommendation of the gfx card manufacturer. It listed 1,000W as requirement.

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Wow, mine is listed as 550W as the minimum; the card itself can draw up to 220W, figures which basically match nVidia's reference implementation:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_275_us.html

Whoops, I mistyped. I have a GTX260, not GTX240. Google now shows a minimum requirement of 500W, but I specifically remember the box stated 1,000W. Too bad the box was thrown away long ago.

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Dual 1.8Ghz G4 processor
1.5GB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
DVDRW
ATI Radeon 9800

Cost - $100



For $100 I do not worry about warranty.

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Why don't you use sys:utilities/grabber instead of your camera?

People might claim I faked it:hammer:

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I can't believe that the person that sold you that didn't know that the processor card alone was worth at least two or three times what you paid for the whole system.

Broken down into components, I could sell that machine on Ebay for about $500.

He was no dummy, but was unaware of the MorphOS crowd's interest in the machine. Actually the computer sat on Craig's list for about a month before I looked and found it. Lucky me, it was still available.