Pegasos to go on sale Monday / Pegasos II to ship September 2003

[zacman]

>When do you give the people info about Pegasos
>II?

Besides the specs that are known already from this
PR, more info will be given on Monday.

[zacman]

>Pegasos boards won't be available to any
>customers until September and this is supposed to
>be a good thing?

 300 Boards will be sold starting on Monday.

[zacman]

>Now who is going to laugh at whom?

And who will laugh last?

[zacman]

>This would come out of that 300, so if there are any
>left over then the userbase can expand with new
>users

Most of the boards have already been exchanged.  
So no real problem. The 300 boards might however
be sold out very quickly though. However waiting
for the Pegasos II with the better specs is worth
waiting.

[zacman]

>And 400 boards by september is not market
>building

Just because there won't be any Pegasos I boards
sold anymore doesn't mean that other versions of
the Pegasos won't be sold.

[zacman]

>I think it means what it says.

Please wait for more info on Monday. It won't be a
problem as a developer to get a board from Genesi.

[zacman]

>Why would they even announce the upcomming
>Peg II, before the Peg 1's are out. What they're
>saying is, please buy this now because later on, it
>will be obsolete and you won't want to buy it then.

The Pegasos is out. There are people having the
hardware. Even more will get it starting with Monday.

However I think it is only fair to say what will be out
next and what won't be supported on the current
design so that nobody gets an wrong idea.

And I think it's a good move from Genesi and their
partners to not stay where they currently are but
instead make a step into the future with advanced
hardware specs.

[zacman]

>I do not agree, based on what I have heard from
>people using Linux in combination with AmigaOne
>solutions

Sorry, are you telling me that after being announced
for March 2002, then delayed until November, then
again bug fixed, delivered only a small number then
switched to XE version which is delayed because of
missing G4 CPUs and will have again(!) a new Articia
revision, are you telling us that everything is brilliant
with that NB?

[zacman]

>OK, for your proofs you'd better start with me, Ole-
>Egil and all the others that have been using Articia
>S on an A1 for the last 10 months.

Wait. Are you telling me that you had ten months the
machine and did not find the first bugs which then
later need to be fixed in the A1 SE and neither found
the bugs that have been fixed in the new Articia S
revision? Is that what you*re telling? 10 months?
Wow.

[zacman]

>yet MAI, who readily accepted the other 2, claim to
>be unable to reproduce

So you don't remember that MAI denied the first bug
too? Only after a long period of time they said that
they can reproduce it and also only because Mr
Carda was in Fremont, CA for two weeks...

>or a problem with the design of the Pegasos (or its
>firmware)

Like the first bug Mr Carda found?

>I use the damn thing on a daily basis and find it
>works rather well.

There are other people also using the Pegasos and
it works fine for them. But that doesn't mean you
don't actually have to fix the bugs. Oops this ram
module doesn't work? Well it's not a bug - it's a
feature, you know low power ...

>why can't the Pegasos 1 use a G4 as originally
>promised ?

They could. But it doesn't make sense just to give
them a CPU card so that people can feel good when
you know that there could be much more speed if
there was another NB. It would be unfair to all of
those who want the real speed of the G4 CPU.

[zacman]

>Could be the last shipment according to contract?

Ehm the shipment of these Articia chips has been
worked out together with MAI at CES 2003.

I'm sure if there were chips available in numbers
(read more than 25/50 or 100) and be bugfree then
Genesi would take.

[zacman]

>Now it's dumping the current chipset because it's
>so buggy they cannot get the real speed of the G4
>CPU

Look, MAI would be really happy to deliver chips for the new Pegasos and Pegasos-based hardware.

> But please at least be willing to look at all of the >companies involved Eyetech, Mai, IBM, Terrasoft

Yes, you're right IBM is really interested in the
current situation with the MAI chipsets.

[zacman]

>AFAIK the Peg2 isn't even in betatest

Sorry, but the Pegasos2 is 90% complete, in
Betatest and heavily tested by the Genesi
betatesters and only needs chipset integration!

[zacman]

>LOL! (...) [Much ranting deleted.]

Sorry I forgot the smiley  :-D  :-D  :-D