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Offline utri007

Re: Amiga OS 3.9 or 4.1 for PPC (and is it worth it?)
« on: February 11, 2016, 09:29:52 PM »
There is no OS4 for sonnet card, most likely never.

I you want to have Amiga OS4 you could buy second hand Sam 440. Prices can be quite low.

Thay way you could get all the benefits of new hardware and PPC, compared to old original amiga hardware. Hard drives are really fast, even Sam Flex 2x PCI bus is many times faster than Zorro bus etc.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: Amiga OS 3.9 or 4.1 for PPC (and is it worth it?)
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 09:11:50 AM »
Quote from: Duce;803908
As someone that grabbed one of the first SAM's off the line, for day to day use, I consider it one short hair above "useless".

For tinkering around with solely Amiga stuff, I have a lot of fun with it, though.

It is a pain to be constantly reaching for my ipad, solely because the SAM's web browser has puked once again on something as simple as FB, Google Docs, etc.


Situation is not different on any Amigish platform. Our best web browser is same.

Amiga is hobby machine, it is OK for general web browsing, like reading dayli news, googlin info about "something", but I wouldn't call Facebook or Google docs simple.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD