8 cores @ 4Ghz and 16Gb RAM vs 2 cores @ 2Ghz and 4GB RAM ?
Easy, I’ll take the first. Most probably the better looking GUI visible on the later can also works on the former. The hardware box would be under the desktop in both case, I don’t carehow it looks until it’s performant.
More seriously, any mockup of a more modern GUI for Haiku that would make sense without needing to recode large part of the source code are welcome. One big limitation we have for instance is that you can’t use translucent and color environment maping and all these UI sugar until we have switched to an hardware accelerated window compositor. Which can’t be done until we get hardware accelerated GPU supports.
Which is an heavy task, otherwise it will be done already since that much years…
Back to square one: no modern GUI without modern GPU support.