A-EON Website updated release date

[crawff]

A-EON have amended the release date from Summer 2010 to Late 2010.

Looks like it might be a expensive christmas this year...

http://a-eon.com/

[Iggy]

Or a chunk out of my savings for a vacation next summer.

Or an expensive Christmas NEXT year.

Or...

[AmigaEd]

Wow! This news was certainly unexpected!

(Note: sarcasm meter fully pegged)

[Piru]

3.05 Shipment of the Hardware. The shipment of the Hardware is indicatively scheduled for end of Q4/2010. A-EON will provide more detailed information on shipping times once the lead times of all components are known. Betatester may subsequently opt to apply the Advance against a full AmigaOne X1000 system (including harddrive, optical drive and customized case) or may opt to receive only the Hardware. All shipping costs, taxes (including without limitation VAT, import duties and other levies) shall be born by Betatester. All shipping of the Hardware is handled through AmigaKit LLC. (source)

Non-betatesters will have to wait till 2011 I'm afraid.

Something like summer 2011 I'd guess.

[dammy]

1,150 GBP for a beta board sure does make the SAM460 look cheap and the EFIKA-MX look like pocket change.

[jj]

And a mac mini the most powerful AmigaNG OS capable machine the bargain of the century.

[dammy]

And a mac mini the most powerful AmigaNG OS capable machine the bargain of the century.

Pffft!  None of the Amiga-like OSs are NG.  Fastest Amiga-like OS system is going to be a 3+GHz x86 single core.

[jj]

Well they are , they are just not modern.

[spihunter]

You'll probably be able to pick up a G5 tower for less then $100 USD by then....Looking forward to seeing the benchmarks!

[Iggy]

You'll probably be able to pick up a G5 tower for less then $100 USD by then....Looking forward to seeing the benchmarks!

Maybe, but will the G5 be supported by MorphOS by then?

And a single core X86 may be the fastest new generation system available, but when will AROS be stable enough for reliable daily use?

Until either of those occur, the G4 Mac is the most powerful NG machine.

[ajlwalker]

Non-betatesters will have to wait till 2011 I'm afraid.

Something like summer 2011 I'd guess.

Piru

Isn't that quote of yours confidential?

[Piru]

Isn't that quote of yours confidential?

Not in my view. This information is given out to anyone who requests it, without signing of a non-disclosure agreement.

In most countries the recipient of mail can make the message public if he decides so. Usually considerations regarding privacy must be made however (you can't reveal legally confidential material, such as medical records). A company writing "confidential" on some document doesn't make it legally confidential, especially if you're willing to mail it out to anyone and everyone.

It all changes if you're employee of the said company and/or have signed NDA with them. Your contract and/or the NDA typically stipulate some rather serious reprimands in case of an offense. Often such breach results in termination of employment / agreement.

[ajlwalker]

Not in my view. This information is given out to anyone who requests it, without signing of a non-disclosure agreement.

In most countries the recipient of mail can make the message public if he decides so. Usually considerations regarding privacy must be made however (you can't reveal legally confidential material, such as medical records). A company writing "confidential" on some document doesn't make it legally confidential, especially if you're willing to mail it out to anyone and everyone.

I thought they had only mailed it out to those who had expressed an interest in the beta test programme?

Had it been mailed to anyone and everyone, then I would have received a copy.  I have not.

You don't consider it confidential, fair enough.  Do you consider it ethical to make a message public when the correspondent has marked it confidential?

[Piru]

I thought they had only mailed it out to those who had expressed an interest in the beta test programme?

Probably. There are several kind of interest however. Some might actually be only interested on the agreement wording and not participating the beta test programme itself. In my view both are equally valid reasons for interest.

You don't consider it confidential, fair enough. Do you consider it ethical to make a message public when the correspondent has marked it confidential?

If there was a good reason to keep the information confidential, then I would consider such behavior unethical.

[spihunter]

Maybe, Maybe not. I'm pretty confident that they will eventually release it though. They've delivered on the Mini & the Emac. The Powerbook version has been shown in public.

The G4 & G5 towers seem more of a challenge with all the configurations and graphic cards that came on these...

I haven't tried AROS in a while but, I didn't seem stable enough for everyday use last I tried it.

Maybe, but will the G5 be supported by MorphOS by then?

And a single core X86 may be the fastest new generation system available, but when will AROS be stable enough for reliable daily use?

Until either of those occur, the G4 Mac is the most powerful NG machine.