New old user vox

[Piru]

Making questions about someone else's budget

vox brought the topic up, not me.

[paolone]

vox brought the topic up, not me.

YOU gave the first pointless, unpolite and unnecessary answer. Like you just did with me. Please stop this childish attitude.

[Franko]

vox brought the topic up, not me.

I prefer to use this one meself... :lol:

"it wasn't me Mr, a big boy did it and ran away... honest..."

It worked a charm when I was 5...

[vox]

omg. mos team repeatedly stated there will be no mos for sam or x1k for that matter. get aros if you must. and better change your attitude a little once youve left os4.. get some downer.

And I have the right to say I would buy it if yoy would do it.

Unless they give me exponation why availiable PPC board is not viable target for MOS.

[vox]

vox brought the topic up, not me.

No, you have attacked me why I dont buy MacMini without any
info on MacMini PPC availiablity in Serbia.

[Piru]

exponation why availiable PPC board is not viable target for MOS.

This has been covered in numerous other threads before, but since you asked:

- The Sam 460 board is very expensive vs the performance it gives. Even basic Mac Mini G4 runs circles around it. There are better (cheaper & faster HW, better spare parts, repair&support situation) targets for the port, for instance PowerBook G4, PowerMac G5 and iMac G5.

- Considering the tiny HW base it would lead to little gains in number of new MorphOS users. While some Sam users are interested in running MorphOS, most are not (this has been backed up by various polls, too).

- The Sam HW is very different from the currently supported HW. Various Mac models are very similar to each other and thus making ports to them is much easier than going for some totally alien and new HW.

There are more reasons but these are the most obvious ones.

[Piru]

you have attacked me

I can't fathom how I could possibly have attacked you in any way. Regardless I apologize for any injury I might have caused.

[TheBilgeRat]

C'mon, thinskins!

AX1000 (if realized, as in put on amigakit for actual purchase) will be pretty cool.

Sam 460 looks pretty cool as well.

MacMinis with MorphOS already are cool (already as in they are already "in the wild").

Aros has potential to be cool.

Classics? ... well...classics are classics

there is always a dark side:

MorphOS: runs on Macs, has wonky licensing scheme
AOS4.X :  Hyperion.  That's enough.
Classics:  We ain't getting any younger.  Oh, and Git offah mah lawn!
Aros:  Can someone say alpha?

All this bickering is the power of the one (MS) ring.  Fight its influence!

You want the most NG bang for the buck?  No brainer - go MorphOS (Or Aros, if you're good at debugging your own).
You want the most and have a pure "It's my own, my only, my precious!" attitude about the hardware?  Easy!  Go Classic  Naah, just joshing - get a SAM.

Wanna dink around and see what you can do in 2M of chipram and a handful of fast?  Classic all the way, baby!

[vox]

I can't fathom how I could possibly have attacked you in any way. Regardless I apologize for any injury I might have caused.

That is how I felt about your welcome.

SAM 440/460: expensive, strange

AMCC data can be obtained, and its in the MOS best interest to support "this new strange alien technology". There are people who own PPC boards and would try MOS if they could. Some would buy it.

[_ThEcRoW]

@piru

A bit off-topic, but im in the need of a bigger hd for my mini andthought that the mini uses ide interface. Is possible to connect pata drives directly or with some type of adapter?. Also, is performance lowered with it?
Thanks in advance!!!

[jorkany]

@piru

A bit off-topic, but im in the need of a bigger hd for my mini andthought that the mini uses ide interface. Is possible to connect pata drives directly or with some type of adapter?.

Here you go. No charge this time.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

[takemehomegrandma]

and better change your attitude a little once youve left os4.. get some downer.

+1

@vox
After reading this thread I get an idea of why you "got problems" with moderators. Lighten up a bit, slow down, and don't be so confrontational. And welcome, BTW...

[Piru]

@piru

A bit off-topic, but im in the need of a bigger hd for my mini andthought that the mini uses ide interface. Is possible to connect pata drives directly or with some type of adapter?. Also, is performance lowered with it?
Thanks in advance!!!

The HDD in Mac Mini is normal 2.5" PATA drive. The drive is quite easy to replace. See here: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-Mac-mini-PowerPC-Hard-Drive/268/1

If you just want extra HDD storage easily you can use a SATA HDD with a HDD enclosure via USB.

There's also beta version of the Helios Firewire stack available so if the HDD enclosure has a firewire port it might give better performance than USB.

[vox]

Just started and we might make a nice FAQ :-)

[vox]

+1

@vox
After reading this thread I get an idea of why you "got problems" with moderators. Lighten up a bit, slow down, and don't be so confrontational. And welcome, BTW...

Thanks, but then again, is this welcome thread? :-)
This certainly is!

[_ThEcRoW]

@jorkany @piru

Thanks, now i have it clearer. It's for replacing the internal 80gb one and giving it a bit more capacity.