AmigaONE vs. PowerMac G4 Direct comparison

[reflect]

@MarkTime

Finally, the Mac won't ever legally run OS 4, and the AmigaONE *DOES NOT LEGALLY* run Mac OS X.

You are confusing the EULA with the law. EULA doesn't equal the law in any way. There are so many End User License Agreements and some of them are quite silly. I tried to explain this to you once already. Since you don't actually sign anything, it won't hold in a court of law (atleast not here, that's been tried many, many times with various similar cases now). I'm talking about OSX here, btw.

If you still want to call it illegal, then atleast say what country you're referring to at the very least.

[kolla]

And I had Linux running on PPC before Apple even bought NeXT (or rather the other way around, in terms of intelect), before Rhapsody, and before all those funny names that ended up being MacOS 8...

Fact is that Debian has had a much longer time to mature than OSX - I did not say that it actually is more mature, but it certainly had the time.

Also, dont forget that OSX derives from NeXTStep, which at the time was originally running on m68k, and then ported to other architectures, mainly iX86. The underlying system, Darwin, is very much a close relative to FreeBSD - at the time a X86 story, so OSX certainly has its "alian" legacy too.

Oh, and last time I checked, the man pages that comes with OSX are most useless as they dont cover OSX, but are merely general BSD4.4 manuals - has this changed yet?

[kolla]

And just for the heck of it.. a replay from slashdot..

MacOSX vs. Linux

[joe_avarage]

Price $1395

I assume this is a net price (without tax) and we put a R7500/64 in, 40GB and no Soundboard I have 1.185,24 (eur!) here. (ah, yes, DVD instead CDRW, but should be on par).

So, might be Europe is a bit cheaper here.
(Prices with tax here (compared to Apple store): Apple: 1.438,80 <-> A1: 1.422,30)
So, pretty similar, while I guess A1 prices will drop over the time. Well, with a R9, 80GB, Superdrive (?) should be more, eventually.

[xeron]

Lets not forget that the AmigaONE Lite, if produced, won't have an equivalent Mac. Mini-ITX boards rock :-D

[olegil]

Lets also not forget that this whole discussion is pointless. The AmigaOne doesn't run MacOS X natively, the Mac doesn't run AmigaOS natively. I have _zero_ interest in MacOS, a LOT of interest in AmigaOS and even more in Debian. So the AmigaOne scores two points, while the Mac only scores one. For me. However, if you are more interested in a Mac than an Amiga, why are you on amiga.org? I would think there's better websites for advocating Apple hardware than this around? ;-)

I just decided to buy a boat instead of another computer this year. I bought an AmigaOne last year, and an A1200 and the Access this year. Guess that's enough for 2003, eh? 2004 should bring another machine, I hope :-)

[Merko]

Sorry.. the AOne also only scores one point, since it doesn't run OS4
EITHER.

Ok, for you this may not matter much, since you're convinced that it
will, and (perhaps more importantly) because you actually want to run
Debian. But for people who are not very interested in Debian, this
whole discussion is _totally_ pointless until OS4 actually exists and
runs on the AOne. Certainly prices will have changed then - if it
happens.