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Post #19 by Gorgonops
Source Forum50 G4 Minis (not mine) — #19
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateTue, 4 Nov 2014 - 18:29
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/50-g4-minis-not-mine.518/
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The ones I sold were the "silent revision" 1.5Ghz models, they went quickly, most of them to Amiga fans who wanted to run MorphOS.  I did give MorphOS a try on my saved souped-up Mini (overclocked to 1.83Ghz, 1GB, 7200RPM 2.5" HD), it is quite an interesting OS to learn.
It's sort of ironic that 10 year old long-discontinued Apple hardware actually benchmarks just as well on most tests as a $3,000 AmigaONE X1000. I love Amiga-People, don't get me wrong, but... guys, it really is time to give up. Obviously Hyperion would be shooting what's left of the Amiga hardware development scene straight in the foot if they ported the "real" AmigaOS 4.0 to run on leftover Apple hardware instead of whatever harebrained scheme they have in the pipe now (Apparently there's an "X5000" in the works using PPC chips designed to power network routers... which I positively guarantee aren't going to be particularly impressive running a general-purpose OS) but it's nonetheless pretty sad.

(As an aside, the X1000's performance may also shed some additional light on why Apple dumped PPC for Intel. The machine uses the PWRficient CPU core that was pretty much Apple's only other option besides IBM's wares if they'd stuck with POWER. Clock for clock it looks worse than the G4; granted, being used for AmigaOS *really* puts it in a bad light because there's essentially *zero* multiprocessor support, but even if you double the usable core count it's still not exactly "blow you to the back of the auditorium" performance compared to *anything* in Intel's catalog post-NetBurst.)

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