The OS4 Notebook

[persia]

[commodorejohn]

Beating a dead horse makes a very satisfying thud and doesn't harm a living thing!

[yssing]

@commodorejohn that little box would be interesting to have AOS4.x running on, although a bit in the low end.

I actually don't think the NoteBook is vapour, some times things just takes time.

[Tripitaka]

Hobby market = You get it when it's done!
As jorkany well knew before he even asked the question.

[vox]

Hobby market = You get it when it's done!
As jorkany well knew before he even asked the question.

No news, but let say its similar state like X1000 in 2010: they say OS4 can run to it, but no drivers.

As we see X1000 drivers are slowly peaking out (as well as SAM 460 audio driver) and must say that drivers seems to be slowest in progress of all OS4 components.

In my head, netbook is not much valued before OS 4.2 and Timberwolf are done because it really needs to use hardware acceleration on netbook because pure software might crawl.

At least in my mind once OS 4.2 and Timberwolf are done, we can expect netbook, sometime late this year. Assume that next batch of fully usable X1000 with no added cards and with OS 4.2 would be promoted by then.

Timeberwolf is almost done (beta 3) and we can`t say boys aren`t doing anything. Is just not up to our wish speed.

[yssing]

An other thing I think is desperately needed is javaVM.

[Tripitaka]

@ vox

Probably spot on with that assessment.

@ yssing

I bumped your other thread because I'de like to see some discussion on that myself.

[itix]

In my head, netbook is not much valued before OS 4.2 and Timberwolf are done because it really needs to use hardware acceleration on netbook because pure software might crawl.

Software rendered gfx is only small part of it. You have to decode images, parse html and css, execute javascript, convert text to local charset, calculate page layout  i.e. hell lot of small tasks you have to do on CPU only.

[commodorejohn]

Does Timberwolf coordinate with TenFourFox at all? They know their stuff over there; I've run modern TenFourFox versions usably on a 500MHz G3, and quite satisfactorily on a 1GHz G4.

[jorkany]

Beating a dead horse makes a very satisfying thud and doesn't harm a living thing!

What if it's a zombie horse? Not one of those voodoo zombies either but a plague zombie.

[commodorejohn]

Ah, but that's an undead horse. Completely different.