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Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« on: June 19, 2008, 11:52:07 AM »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/

The CherryPal folks stripped out 80 per cent of the usual PC innards, leaving a case, a chip, a couple USB ports and a monitor port. The system runs on a Power architecture-based 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e chip, ships with 4GB of Flash storage and has 256MB of memory.
 

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 12:20:14 PM »
That's quite similar to Genesi's Efika2. A 5121 based SoC design. Unfortunately Freescale's a bit delayed on the 5121, thus I expect to arrive these devices in autumn/winter.

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 01:54:40 PM »
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Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?


Nah... we rather keep waiting for A. Incs hardware to be available.  :lol:  :roll:
 

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 01:58:55 PM »
Hahaha

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 02:30:16 PM »
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/cherrypal/

The CherryPal folks stripped out 80 per cent of the usual PC innards, leaving a case, a chip, a couple USB ports and a monitor port. The system runs on a Power architecture-based 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e chip, ships with 4GB of Flash storage and has 256MB of memory.


So why would I want it over my iPhone.. which has similar specifications... but 8gig flash (soon to be 16 :-D) a modern, well supported web browser and is fully portable?

I honestly can't see what the hell CherryPal are trying to do here?

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 02:39:19 PM »
I think theyre trying to make computing as cheap as possible by making you store everything online? I don't really know either. I guess it would be good if you wanna run linux and carry a tiny computer around? *shrugs*
 

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2008, 02:42:35 PM »
@bloodline

I bet I can write letters faster with a desktop computer connected to a proper monitor using a proper keyboard than you using a touch-screen :-)

I wouldn't like to use bittorrent/emule with an iPhone :-P
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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2008, 03:16:58 PM »
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I bet I can write letters faster with a desktop computer connected to a proper monitor using a proper keyboard than you using a touch-screen :-)


Hmmm... good point... But I write a hell of a lot of Emails and even this post on my iPhone... I'm pretty quick on it now...

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I wouldn't like to use bittorrent/emule with an iPhone :-P


I wouldn't want to use bittorrent/emule on that Cherry thingie either... it's not really suited to serious desktop usage... which is why I compared it to my iPhone and not my Mini-ITX (for example)

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 03:25:44 PM »
I don't see why it wouldn't be fine for bittorrent unless I guess you were using a Java client which tend to be pretty heavy
 

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Re: Wouldn't this make a really good OS4 Amiga?
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2008, 03:40:22 PM »
Are these the same people that made CherryOS?

Hidden domain registration, yada, yada.

It does have a logo resembling gonads though...


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