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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: System on June 03, 2003, 01:37:22 PM
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Applelinks.com recently posted a positive review and writeup of the Pegasos' ability to run MacOS as well as other operating systems. You can read it Here (http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/05/20030528124348.shtml)
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Nice.
BTW Wayne, have you got your peg going yet?
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Wouldn't this also apply for the AmigaOne machine?, or are they completely different in their hardware?
The main reason for being able to use MacOS X on the AOne would be that it's easier to get the amiga into the office.
When noone is watching you, you just switch into the amiga environment instead of the mac, and then suddenly you only run the amiga... . :-D :-D
However this doesn't apply for me, i'm already working full time with WinUAE over here.. :-)
Nice news anyway.
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Wouldn't this also apply for the AmigaOne machine?, or are they completely different in their hardware?
The reason that people want Pegasos running MacOS is because PowerMacs are massively overpriced and Pegasos are relatively cheap. The A1 is still not that much cheaper than the PowerMacs (if it all), so I can't see it becoming popular for that...
That said, what will run on Pegasos will run on A1. They are mainly compatible boards. There's no reason why an A1 user couldn't install Linux and MOL on top of that, or just use MacOS directly (if Apple ever allow it, that is).
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What a long and positive review.
It looked very biased, but perhaps he is just a very positive person, or pegasos/morphos really is incredible :-)
Anyways, nice review.
Sincerely,
-Kenneth Straarup.
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Mac On Linux.
So no the Pegasos can not run MacOS.
The Pegasos can run Linux native wich the linux ability can run the Mac emulated.
The heading sure makes it sound like its running native.
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Sorry, but now I really have to ***.
This must be one of the most ***
articles about Pegasos/MOS Ive ever stumbled on.
Either its written by Genesi, or the Mac-folks are
*** happy about having another system for
MacOS.
Dont get me wrong, I do dig PEG/MOS.
*hurgl*
Edit: Cencored it :)
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The "review" looks like a re-write of information that Genesi has written previously about the Peg-II, supposed firewire support, etc. The person who "wrote" it said that other reviewers said the system was very quiet, which to me insinuates that there was not an actual system being reviewed.
The only review I have seen from outside the Amiga/MorphOS community was from OS News's Eugenia.
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So no the Pegasos can not run MacOS.
Correct, but I should point out that this is not a limitation of the Pegasos but of Apple's licencing restrictions.
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if you see the price for the pegasos boards they dont
seem to be very cheap anymore ? a pc system is still
cheaper
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it sounds biased b/c ...
it is NOT a review !!!
It's just a copy of the pegasosppc site !!
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Hey Mahen, don't let them put words in your mouth! ;-)
Great coverage!
In the meanwhile, we have had our first Darwin and OpenDarwin coders join the PhPegPort@phinixi.com mailing list. :-D
Full steam ahead!
Pricing for the future...Pegasos Basic System (G3) 299 Euros, PegasosPower (G4) 499 Euros? Any more questions on pricing? :-o
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It would be nice if Pegasos had a cool case. Something that when someone sees it, he will recognise it at once!
BTW I like very much the add with the peg package.
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a basic system means motherboard only
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@BBRV
>Pricing for the future...Pegasos Basic System (G3) 299 Euros, PegasosPower (G4) 499 Euros? Any more questions on pricing?
I have. For the pioneers who have bought G3 for $299, will we get peg 2 mobo+cpucard for 200e, or only cpucard?
I am asking, because:
a) If we will get Pegasos2+cpucard, I am willing to pay extra 200e in hope some developer(or other whome might help the platform) will get a chance to buy my used Peg1 mobo+cpucard for special price.
b) If only cpucard, 200e is a lot to ask for a few extra mhz, especially if I trade my old one in. At least I am not going for this option, don't know of others.
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Thats good pricing.
It doesn't have to be cheaper, just reasonable.
I regard 300 dollars as being a good motherboardcpu price for PowerPC architecture.
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Im glad you do but Ill believe it when I see it. He also didn't say if we were talking Peg1 or Peg2 in those prices.
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We posted this to the Phoenix Reseller Mailing list last night. We will try to explain it better here...;-)
We will sell the Pegasos II with either a G3 or G4 CPU card. Think of the G3 version as the Pegasos and the G4 version as the PegasosAdvanced or the PegasosPlus.
The Pegasos G3, which is the mainboard, CPU card, MorphOS and LinuxPPC operating systems CDs, official Pegasos badge, back panel, documentation AND MorphOS T-Shirt will be sold for 299 Euros (taxes and shipping NOT included). We will also include an Office Productivity package, a web browser, an email client, various video viewing software packages, PSA, Birdie Shoot, and, and, and...this will be the SuperBundle.
The PegasosPlus will be the same thing except have the G4 card and sell for 499 Euros.
The G4 Upgrade for all the Pegasos I owners will have two options:
1. Buy for 200 Euros the new G4 Board (you will still have the Pegasos I mainboard with April patch)
2. Exchange your COMPLETE system and 200 Euros and get a whole NEW system with G4 card and Marvell northbridge.
Hope that explains it. Please post your questions here.
Best regards,
Raquel and Bill :-)
Genesi
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This is not a review, and does not state or purport anywhere in the "special report" to be so. A review of a product is when one has tried the product and given an opinion on how well it does what it intends to do, and in some cases whether the reviewer thinks the product is relavant or not. In some reviews the product is also hooked up to test equipment to see where it ranks among products in the same category. With that said, it certainly is a positive "special report". This shouldn't be a problem as long as we understand this and take it for what it is. :-)