• RE:Macs and blu-ray

    From Dingo@VERT/ZHARVEK to Froggy Me on Wed Aug 28 21:40:00 2013
    Yes, the necessary hardware is still being produced. It's PowerPC b
    good example is the X1000:

    http://www.a-eon.com/x1000.html

    I relaly wanted one of these, but even though i made great salary the
    year it was released (Ahem, about 2 years later than it was promised to
    be...) I still couldn't justify the >$2,000 USD cost for sub-par
    hardware.

    Personally I'm banking on Natami:

    http://www.natami.net/

    Unlike the X1000, it will actually be bit-for-cpu-instruction-byte
    compatible with the amiga. The whole PPC Accellerator card evolution of
    OS4 doesn't seem to be getting very far. It certainly doesn't have
    enough market traction. I would expect in 5 years or so that X1000 is
    still the last and only amiga os4-compatible machine, still expensive, procured from ebay, just like the genesis and other PPC-like systems
    before it, and still 5-10 years behind in technology -- that is, you
    won't have Ruby, Python, Flash, Java, etc., support out of the box like
    you do with even a PPC-based macintosh, or the direction places like
    MorphOS are going.
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