Elbox's press department reminds me of Soviet-era Tass reports. I can just see them releasing a black and white, heavily retouched photo of the Dragan in a couple of weeks :lol:
Seriously though, it's a very interesting piece of hardware. I am torn between future PC upgrades and buying this, but my advice to myself is "wait and see". I don't doubt Elbox's sincerity, as they were the ones who gave us PCI in the first place, along with the Power Tower, FastATA, PCI soundcards etc. I've also found their support team to be good too.
What's put me off was the controversy about code in the SpiderUSB driver which could damage the RDB of your harddrive if a hacked version was used on an off the shelf PCI card. There was also the controversy over P96 Voodoo drivers and the ongoing lack of info re OS4 and SharkPPC. On one hand we have Elbox saying "we're waiting for the software" and on the other we have Hyperion saying "we've not been approached, OS4 won't work with the SharkPPC".
However, I'd love to have a 266Mhz '060 compatible CPU running on my Amiga. It'll still be a tiny fraction of the power of my 2.5gig Athlon, but it would be many, many times faster than my 40Mhz '040 - provided that the new Coldfire is directly legacy compatible with '060 code, otherwise some of the performance may be lost with patched instructions etc.
