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Not bad for being broke.

Moved the Six Dollar eMac front and center on the table, shoving the PCQ and the Beige Restoration Project over to the side. The PCQ might be the most valuable Mac in the Lab (save for the literal current model Mac mini M4), but the Six Dollar eMac is my favorite, and I'm gonna give it some well-deserved attention.

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Not bad for being broke.

Moved the Six Dollar eMac front and center on the table, shoving the PCQ and the Beige Restoration Project over to the side. The PCQ might be the most valuable Mac in the Lab (save for the literal current model Mac mini M4), but the Six Dollar eMac is my favorite, and I'm gonna give it some well-deserved attention.

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The screen still looks pretty bright!
 
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Current setup after a few months of upgrading and adding to my Power Mac G5. I have the mismatched monitors because the GPU I have is a holy grail with an ADC and DVI input on the back instead of two of either. Rubber feet are kind of annoying on the ADC monitor, so I had to prop it with one of my girlfriend's old textbooks. I got myself a Firewire 400 enclosure since upgrading the internal drive to an SSD, letting me use the original hard drive inside of the enclosure.
 
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Prices are not set in stone, but lets say "reasonable" (when compared to similar offerings).
Well, when the similar offerings are all either bird-flavored in quad-digits or IBM servers in five-digits or more, that doesn't really give me much confidence. I'll keep an eye on this one, though.
 
Ah yes, how foolish of me to suppose a board specifically made for MorphOS would have a CPU the OS could fully utilise...

a) this wasn't "specifically made for MorphOS" even if that error in judgement is easy to make
b) noone makes single core CPU/SoCs anymore
c) the state of MorphOS is what it is today and this isn't the 1st dual or even quad core system supported
d) if some sort of multi core support gets it's done it will be done for all the above

bird-flavored in quad-digits or IBM servers in five-digits or more

Nah not those, more like the stuff AEon and ACube produce for the "AmigaNG" market.


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this wasn't "specifically made for MorphOS" even if that error in judgement is easy to make
Forgive me but the link you supplied goes straight to a page that opens with:

“The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in mind”

Fair point about lack of single core CPUs - nevertheless I did initially get excited to see 4 cores reported under MorphOS - maybe support may come eventually?
 
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