Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:connor wrote:
Quote:ASiegel wrote:
There are people on this website who have managed to get a Mac with better performance for free so even 9 USD is not that impressive
And others get their house for free because the parents give it to them. Doesn't mean that this true for most of us.
This is a rather crude comparison. My point is that if all you care about is to get the cheapest possible hardware to run MorphOS on, then chances are good you will be able to get an eMac or similar hardware either for free or close to free sooner or later.
Are there going to be exceptions depending on where you live? Obviously, but then again the cited 9 USD is not going to be matched everywhere either due to varying VAT rates, customs tariffs, shipping fees, and so on.
Put more succinctly, access to extremely low-cost hardware is hardly an argument in favor of moving to ARM. The current hardware options already feature a wide gamut of price points. It is the performance area that is a bit lacking.
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THis one looks nice but Nvidia means that we have no single driver for any of their cards and as fa as I remember this was the main reason for chosing Radeon: because they have a better driver documentation. So I guess boarsds like these (boards with any Nvidia graphic chips) are off by default.
There is an open source driver for the previous generation of the Tegra (K1) at least which nVidia contributed to, but this is very much besides my point: I was not proposing to port MorphOS to this particular hardware or even ARM in general. I was merely stating that I personally find higher end hardware options more interesting as those could offer existing users a performance upgrade.
As far as MorphZone visitors are concerned, requests for faster hardware are certainly a lot more frequent than complaints about excessively high hardware prices (not sure if any recent ones exist) ...