A1 release date

[DaveP]

Asian

These are two seperate markets, the PC market is only selling >2GHz from new at the moment on x86 for a platform that runs WindowsXP variants and Linux.

The PowerPC market is running >800Mhz at the moment for MacOSX ( although you can run nicely at about half that ) and the AmigaOS4 market, when it exists, will come in at >600Mhz for new hardware.

Waiting for G5 is pointless, IMHO, AOS4 will not exploit the chip for some time to come and first we need a PPC northbridge supplied for A1 ( and in the alternative market - pegasos/morphos they have the same challenge ).

Remember, even when Amiga was at its prime, you had to treat it as a different market as far as MHz was compared.

[Warface]

No offense meant, but there always will be excuses. Even if it will have G5 and DDR memory, there will be new excuses by then. For something AmigaOS like even a 600 MHz CPU can be overkill (just spoke with Rajnai Almos today concerning Petunia speeds under 604/180 OS4 today, and know beta1 users with MOS/JIT experience) - and believe me, on a G3/G4 even a static 68K emu with nativ PPC kernel will be blazingly fast, not to mention the MOS/OS4 JIT speeds and native applications.  

Something important to remember: it's NOT windows.

[thorrin]

asian1 wrote:
Hello
I am waiting for G5 2.5 GHz, because according to
PC vendors anything below 2 GHz is DEAD DUCK.

Here we go...  Mercedes dealers say that anything below an S class is a hooptie.  What are you running that requires 2.5 GHz?  Quake 495?   :-D

I used to work at a telecom manufacturer for many years.  Most of that hardware is running 68020s!  My phones still work  :-P

Don't believe the hype man.  If your PC works for you, then stay there.  Don't upgrade because some PC dealer wants to make more money.

-Thorrin

[redrumloa]

Remember, even when Amiga was at its prime, you had to treat it as a different market as far as MHz was compared.

This is true. My 600Mhz peggy is blazing fast for most tasks, and this is BEFORE JIT! There is very little native PPC software I find myself lacking desired speed for. Amigaone/OS4 SHOULD be the same.

[amigamad]

Amigaones are already out and os 4 is still coming. :-)

[bloodline]

redrumloa wrote:

Remember, even when Amiga was at its prime, you had to treat it as a different market as far as MHz was compared.

This is true. My 600Mhz peggy is blazing fast for most tasks, and this is BEFORE JIT! There is very little native PPC software I find myself lacking desired speed for. Amigaone/OS4 SHOULD be the same.

I fear that if you were running a bunch of Softsynths and a non linear editing software (ie Logic audio)... you would not be so chuffed with 600Mhz... I know I'm not...

[redrumloa]

bloodline wrote:

I fear that if you were running a bunch of Softsynths and a non linear editing software (ie Logic audio)... you would not be so chuffed with 600Mhz... I know I'm not...

I do all video renedering on my AltlonXP 2100 based PC, and it is SLOW. But I meant for generally computing.

[DanDude]

Hmmm...have you listened into the Amiwest 2003 show?

I tried asking that question myself, my question gets read out loud on UGN radio and the answer I was told "Christmas 2003".  If there are no more problems completing the new OS, then we should have our gift! :-)