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In comparison to say AOS or Mac OS Leopard the price is pretty much comparable - or at least it was back in 2005 when I purchased Leopard although I suspect the price have changed since. £100 may seem a bit expensive for a pair of OSes that many would deem as under-developed, but at the end of the day someone has to pay for and fund future development. Butterflies and Boing balls don't grow on trees ya know.
You have to pay for your vices mate
Thats because its a very minor update on Leopard itself. The difference between Leopard and itself pre-decessor Panther were massive in comparison.Watch them whack the price back up again on the next major release.
Yes indeed it's by far the cheapest one of the two commercial NG options available! (Only AROS is cheaper, but that's not even close to be comparable to MorphOS, so...)
Well purely from the user-experience PoV the difference isn't that huge and I should know as I have been using both for sometime and they are nearly identical. So sure, not going to argument about whats on the hood as I don't know, but purely from what you can do and how stuff operates differences are barely noticeable..
Sure. Compare away. The only system of the 3 that can do you can do any real work with is OSX. Peopled don't buy MOS for nostalgia. Nor do people buy OSX for nostalgia. They buy it to get things done. That's the point. You're trying to justify the expense of MOS like it's some sort of antique to be collected. MOS is still being produced. It's not an antique.
You could just as easily have used WinUAE and saved a lot of money if you're looking for nostalgia. Or buy a used classic Amiga. MOS is marketed as an alternative to OS4 and is touted to be "modern". It wasn't developed for the sake of nostalgia. It was developed with some backward compatibility in mind, hence the ability to run some apps from OS3.9 and earlier. MOS's strength is also its weakness. It's strength lies in being able to run native MOS apps at blazing speed. There just aren't very many native apps. So sure, spend several hundred dollars for a dedicated MOS box and a copy of MOS to run pre-OS4 apps, but you can do it much cheaper and faster in WinUAE. Until some developers make some useful applications for MOS, my PegII will continue to be an expensive boat anchor taking up space in my basement.
Around December 2008.
non-Amigans can't and won't be convinced that MOS is anything other than a toy for geeks..
Why would I spend approx. $600 USD for a computer that can't even surf the web properly right out of the box? If I'm looking for a toy, yeah, maybe.
Why should they ?
Difference is that MOS development isn't their "job"...You need to be paid for your job. You don't need to be paid for your hobby stuff... Even though it's time & work (which I don't deny). No one is forcing you to work on MorphOS: you have no contract (not that I know at least ). When you have a job, you have obligations, and your company is making money thanks to your work... So in returns mean you have to be paid for your work...What I mean isn't that it's ok or not to do it. They choose to sell it, fine. But it's not mandatory. A lot of people have real jobs, work on their spare time on other OS (AROS, Haiku, Menuet,... just to name a few) and don't seem to have the need to require you to pay any money in order to use their product.And it seems developers here seem to imply it is mandatory. As if any line of code required some cent...
You can certainly use them independently but I think there's a performance leverage with SLI. As I've only the one card atm, I've not looked too deeply into it but I think it makes sharing large working datasets between the GPUs that much easier.
