This Saturday (22-Oct), Hyperion announced they are working in drivers for an OEM PowerPC based netbook already available. Drivers will be available in the 1Q-2012.
The only PowerPC based netbook in the market is the LimePC. http://www.limefree.org
The LimePc is based on a Freescale PowerPC MPC5121e processor
Other details:
- 400Mhz MPC5121e Processor
- 8,9″ TFT Screen (1024×600) -> Rumor: 12″ screen
- 256 Mb RAM -> Rumor: 512Mb
- HD: 4, 8 or 16 GB
- Wireless LAN
- Battery Li/Ion 3400 mAh
- Webcam 0.3 Megapixels
- Ports: 1xVGA, 2xUSB, 1xRJ45, 1xSD Card reader
- Powervr SGX 2D/3D graphics accelerator (the iPhone 3G graphic chip)
- Soundcard
This configuration could change in the commertial product, but this is a minimum base config. And the best: The Netbook price is 199$ http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Vodacom-Linkbook/
The Amiga branded Netbook will cost between 300 and 500$
Very good news!
Interesting, interesting=) Will be waiting=)
By: povsuduvolosy on October 24, 2011
at 9:02 pm
Definitely interesting.
I’m getting an AmigaOS 4 netbook for sure.
By: oldschoolgameblog on October 26, 2011
at 8:02 pm