Public Release of MorphOS 2.6 & Introduction of PowerMac Support

[itix]

:-)

[Trev]

I'm sorely tempted to get a 480 as I got a bit hooked with CUDA on the 275. With the full speed double precision, increased cache and full IEEE 754 support, it looks a real computational powerhouse

Save yourself a bit of cash and buy two or three 460s instead. ;-)

[ferrellsl]

Save yourself a bit of cash and buy two or three 460s instead. ;-)

I'll meet you half-way and buy two 470s!

[nicholas]

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.

£45 for a G4 PowerMac + £100 for MorphOS 2.6 (which does "surf the web properly right out of the box").

It's just a toy too.

[Karlos]

Save yourself a bit of cash and buy two or three 460s instead. ;-)

My existing motherboard doesn't do SLI, only crossfire. It was one of the first to support the Q9450 and at that point there were shenanigans between nVidia and intel. Alas, thanks to my X48 chipset, no SLI for me.

Of course, that could be the perfect excuse to get an X58 and core i7...

However, getting a bit off-topic here :-)

[Lando]

My ire wasn't direct at the MOS dev team or you, but at folks in this forum who go out of their way to argue points that simply aren't true.

Wow, talk about pot, kettle, black...  just in a quick scan of the last few pages of this thread there are dozens of your comments that are just plain wrong, false, misleading... call them what you will.  You must be pretty irate with yourself right now.

[magnetic]

ferells

You hijacked a nice important thread for the amiga world with your stupidity and trolling. Please knock it off you are really beginging to look sorry

[Jupp3]

Like the guy earlier in this thread who was trying to get me to believe that an ATI 9250 is even close to modern GPU performance.

Firstly, what software on MorphOS runs too slow on ATI 9250? Don't get me wrong, I would also like to see some that do :-)

Until we have significant amount of software that's too slow, I'd say it's "good enough"

Secondly, wasn't the discussion about ATI 9000, rather than 9250? (At least you mentioned specifically 9000 in some of your posts) Sure, both lose to modern gfx cards, but 9000 is quite a lot faster than 9250.

And even if cards are "good enough" (for now), there's availability problem. Best (of the supported) models, like 9000 are almost impossible to find as new (but available on ebay etc.) while worst models, like 9250 are quite a bit easier to find (sometimes even new). And for most, even that is enough. For now.

[rzookol]

Firstly, what software on MorphOS runs too slow on ATI 9250? Don't get me wrong, I would also like to see some that do :-)

blender, quake3

[zylesea]

Yes, I have to agree with you.  Others on here will point out that OSX is comparable in price, but OSX supports multi-core CPUs and has a wealth of applications out there.  Try finding a decent office suite and a modern web browser for MOS.  OSX also supports a broader range of hardware.  MOS is still limping by on old ATI 9xxx series video cards. And yes, it will run on a multi-core system but only uses one core.

It is not that much about comparison of other products. It is a take it or leave it offer. Either you like it and and are willing to spend the money, or you aren't. It is not about being good or bad, right or wrong or such things. It is just a simple choice for the potential customer: Take it or leave it. It is not a bazaar where you can haggle for the price.

[zylesea]

MorphOS cannot do any serious work, it is a retro user hobby. If you want to do serious work you get a Windows based PC, a Linux based PC or a Mac with OSX.

I beg to differ. I use MorphOS for my university courses (Bachelor and Diploma courses for Biology/neuroscience). I write apps for teaching and research with Hollywood, write articles and stuff with google docs using OWB and do literature searches with OWB, watch video material of my experiments with MPlayer, do sketches with TV paint, modify/manage pictures of my work with showgirls, read docs with Apdf, do my meal communication with YAM, edit texts with Cubic/Gold ED.
Sure, there are apps I am missing (drivers for I/O-cards, Matlab, Adobe illustrator to name two improtant apps for my work), but actually I use MorphOS on my Mac mini for earning money.

[zylesea]

OWB or Netsurf won't do it.

Dunno what decent is in your book, but OWB is pretty decent. The only thing that could be better is Flash and hardware rendering of Cairo to speed some things up even more. But compability is great. Flash is losing importance, due to Apple and google pushing other formats.

[warpdesign]

Morphos is one step above shareware and developers should get paid for their work.

Why should they ?

I have no doubt they are doing a lot of great work. But the same goes for the Haiku team for example... And you don't need to pay for it. You can donate, but don't have to.

Making people pay for it is their choice, I accept it. But they don't need to charge for it to continue: money pays for site hosting, computers/devices support, pizzas (),... but that's it.

I don't understand why on the Amiga everything needs to be paid for.

[jj]

Why should they ?
 
I have no doubt they are doing a lot of great work. But the same goes for the Haiku team for example... And you don't need to pay for it. You can donate, but don't have to.
 
Making people pay for it is their choice, I accept it. But they don't need to charge for it to continue: money pays for site hosting, computers/devices support, pizzas (),... but that's it.
 
I don't understand why on the Amiga everything needs to be paid for.

 
I also do not understand why the vast majority of people in the Amiga world think everything should be freaking free either.
 
If I had put the sort of work in required to write a PPC OS, i would very much like to have some token cash.

[nicholas]

Why should they ?

Why should your boss pay you to flip burgers?

[Golem!dk]

@warpdesign

Well... you don't have to pay.