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I complain that AArch64 systems are expensive. But check this brand-new 32-bit PowerPC board:

2 cores at 1.2GHz, only 8GB ram, 4 pcie lanes, 1GbE, USB 2.0 only, SATA

Just 1199 EUR. For mini-itx board with "not recommended for new designs" cpu.

I like retro communities but not a fan of companies which try to earn money selling hardware slower than 25y PowerMac...

https://amigakit.fr/?page=full&pid=3&lang=en

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@hrw when they originally announced the board in 2015, the CPU was only five years into its 15 year planned support cycle. Apparently it took them 9 years from announcement to shipping, and NXP decided to end support for all ppc32 chips early because of lack of demand.

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@hrw Sorry, cannot check the linked website.

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@arnd And during all those years price jumped from "around 350 EUR" to "give us 1200 EUR".

Friends who use MorphOS on old Apple Macs joke that their decades old "computers from trashcan" are faster and more expandable.

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@ptesarik Quality of board is not further away from quality of store admin.

Their SSL certificate expired today.

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@hrw At least they're consistent. They sell obsolete technology through a website with an obsolete SSL certificate.

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@hrw Seems like a fair price for board done in small numbers :-(. Computers are extermely expensive when done in small series...
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@pavel @hrw I'm afraid fair price does not make the design less obsolete.

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@ptesarik @hrw And that's kind of the point, no? Amiga people want obsolete designs. At some point it will be so obsolete that FPGA solution like MISTer will be suitable, but I assume PowerPC is still too complex for that.
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@pavel @hrw Thank you, this is the point I missed!

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@pavel @ptesarik one of problems of this board is cpu.

Different vfp unit than in any previous one and no simd will make current software even slower.

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