Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> the reason I didn't think about the 12,1 is its an iMac
...as are the 8,1 and the 8,2. In_Correct just wrote "G5" and you also included the PowerMac11,2, which MorphOS is not available for, so I saw no reason to exclude the iMacs
(And inofficial versions of MorphOS have been shown on PCIe-based PowerMac and iMac, i.e. PowerMac11,2 and PowerMac12,1.)
Yes iMac support would be nice. All-in-one designs are compact, clean, and take up no more room than a monitor.
PCI-E PowerMacs would offer new video card possibilities.
And the development teams primary argument?
That they are already supporting a lot of different systems.
BUT, what systems are most of us using?
I'd be willing to bet that 95% of us are using G4 and G5 Apples, with Mac Minis and G5 PowerMacs now becoming the dominant base.
And, as I've repeated to many times, the AGP slot in our current G5s is a limitation.
The X5000 will help (for those of us willing to pony up for one), and the SAM460 would have (IF they were available), but the PowerMac 11,2 would offer us a more economical, and easily obtained solution.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
