• Just looking around
    Posts: 5 from 2024/9/15
    Hello everyone, first intervention here even if I have been following this site and this forum for years. Forgive my English, it is not my native language and I mainly use Google Translate.

    In short, all these years, I used MorphOS on Pegasos I/G3, and now on my PowerBook 15" 1.67/DDR 2. I notice something really annoying: we arrive at a really mature software solution (thanks Jaca and its great browser that opens up all modern uses), but I feel completely limited by the hardware. Just yesterday, I was using my PowerBook to surf and the slowness was driving me to despair. Which ultimately leads me to only start my PowerBook occasionally, while with it I could meet 95% of my needs (especially via the internet and we have the browser for that).
    As for finding a new machine, I am frustrated: no new more powerful laptop, the iMac G5 iSight are beautiful but hard to find, the PowerMac G5 are just as hard to find but bulky and not very energy efficient... And in the end, for what real gain?

    It is really time to change platforms. The platform x86 has the advantage of being very widespread and sustainable, but finding the right configuration, especially on a laptop, seems difficult to me and potentially a few hundred Euros to pay. In my humble opinion, the Amiga spirit is above all hardware and software optimization. I see a solution that corresponds to that: the Raspberry Pi! If we detail:
    -the Raspberry Pi is roughly equivalent to the G5 since the Pi 3 B+. With a Pi 4 or Pi 5, we gain in performance.
    -It's small, cheap, easy to find, ideal for an OS that is considered by many as a hobby.
    -With the Pi 400, we have a good reminder of the past like the Amiga 600. :-)
    -No need to bother with multiple configurations, it facilitates the development of drivers.
    -It's energy efficient.
    -It's well documented.
    -It would allow to expand the user base easily.

    Add to that the fact that the ARM platform is sufficiently durable, that we could have a widely available ARM laptop with MacBooks or Qualcomm machines (not to mention tablets with keyboards), that we have high-performance platforms with the Mac Mini Silicon...

    I sincerely hope that the MorphOS Team is studying this path and that the development time since the demonstration of MorphOS X86 corresponds to a change of architecture towards ARM. Because personally, I no longer have the means in recent years to spend €700 or more on a hobby that does not benefit my family, while €100 on a Raspberry (or even nothing, I already have a Pi 4) I would do it without a problem. As for the MorphOS license, it has been at a really reasonable price for years.

    In short, it was "my 2 cents". :-)
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