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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: System on April 05, 2004, 10:11:53 PM
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The online store at http://www.pegasos.co.uk is now open for business!
G3 boards are available priced at £269.99 including VAT and shipping in the UK.
Payment is through PayPal only at this time, although other arrangements (and pre-orders of G4 systems) can be made by contacting us at sales@pegasos.co.uk
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The g3 is quite well priced even the g4 is good i paid £587 for a g4 800 a1 motherboard about a year or two ago and i still dont have the os to use it,if only i had enough money id be tempted. :-)
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*YAWN*
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Allright!
UK needs a good Pegasos dealer. The site looks good and they even take Paypal.. great for euro pegasos owners..
magnetic
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Now that's an alright price, if only it was the same for the A1. I still refuse to pay the extortionate price they're charging for those boards, and I've got access to OS4Beta
Maybe when they've released that small A1 or when they've got a few sales under their belt
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Why only USB 1.1? With most peripherals (mice, keyboards, pensticks, printers, cameras, hard drives, etc.) being USB 2.0, this will be a major disadvantage for the boards. Otherwise, the spec is fairly impressive. I'm almost tempted! :-)
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USB 1.1 is what the VIA southbridge provides, USB 2.0 peripherals will still work, or you can add a USB 2.0 PCI card and ArakAttack drivers if you need the additional speed.
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Yeah, buy a pegasos now and every £ you pay will go directly to bbrvs lawyers to sue ann.lu! :pissed:
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Why only USB 1.1? With most peripherals (mice, keyboards, pensticks, printers, cameras, hard drives, etc.) being USB 2.0, this will be a major disadvantage for the boards
Are you telling me you type so fast that a USB1.1 keyboard can`t keep up ?
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Are you telling me you type so fast that a USB1.1 keyboard can`t keep up ?
:-D Okay, so maybe mice and keyboards aren't an issue, but it would certainly affect USB pendrives, harddrives, and digital cameras. :roll:
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Christ, I can't believe how over priced these boards are. And they seem so out of date, I remember when 'amiga' meant reasonable prices for cutting edge tech. I don't mind paying over the odds, but USB 1.1?
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Christ, and I used to remember a time when people actually bought hardware on what it could do for them, rather than just look at semi-irrelevant numbers...
I know the PC industry likes to abuse the USB for just about everything: hard drives, modems, scanners, etc, but what it was designed for was low bandwidth devices, and that's ALL. USB 1.1 might be a negative point for the Pegasos but it is one of the few parts of the actual board that don't reach minimum expected specs for this day and age. And if anyone finds the bandwidth of 1.1 lacking, then perhaos they shouldn't be using the USB for whatever they're doing at all.
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I know the PC industry likes to abuse the USB for just about everything: hard drives, modems, scanners, etc
Abuse? USB was always intended to be a universal form of connection for all sorts of devices, hence USB = Universal Serial Bus, ie. for universal applications!
but what it was designed for was low bandwidth devices, and that's ALL.
Errr... no it wasn't (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define:USB+2.0+(Universal+Serial+Bus)).
480Mbps is hardly low bandwidth! :lol:
Besides, the USB 2.0 standard has been around since April 2000, so there is no excuse for these boards not supporting it.
And if anyone finds the bandwidth of 1.1 lacking, then perhaos they shouldn't be using the USB for whatever they're doing at all.
USB 1.1 = 12Mbps
USB 2.0 = 480Mbps
So evidently USB 1.1 is lacking, which is why I use/prefer USB 2.0.
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Hey guys, don't forget that USB 2.0 applies to 12Mbps devides as well. Pretty much USB 1.x was renamed to 2.0 low-speed with the new 2.0 being USB 2.0 high-speed.
So if it makes you feel better, call the Pegasos a USB 2.0 low-speed, ok?
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Yeah, buy a pegasos now and every £ you pay will go directly to bbrvs lawyers to sue ann.lu!
with some of the unmoderated comments on there im suprised they have not been sued ages ago . :-o
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I remember when 'amiga' meant reasonable prices for cutting edge tech.
When was that then i must have missed it its always been overpriced. :-?
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Actually the Pegasos is USB 2.0 Full Speed compliant :)
http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1
But it's much less confusing to say USB 1.1.
Yes, there is a good reason not to use High Speed USB 2.0 - back when the original Pegasos was designed and prototyped it didn't exist.
The newer chipsets with the support don't support the older processor interfaces that PowerPC has, instead choosing to utilise HyperTransport and Intel's own technology NetBurst.
These are very x86 specific technologies, although you can buy "tunnels" which bridge the gap between one chipset and another, it's an expensive proposition just for a USB port or two.
A lot of PC motherboards still ship with older USB ports. A lot of them say "USB 2.0" when they don't support the 480Mbit speed rating.
At least we're being honest in this regard :)
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Hey guys, don't forget that USB 2.0 applies to 12Mbps devides as well. Pretty much USB 1.x was renamed to 2.0 low-speed with the new 2.0 being USB 2.0 high-speed.
So if it makes you feel better, call the Pegasos a USB 2.0 low-speed, ok?
Nope.
USB1 = USB
USB1.1 = USB Full Speed
USB2 = USB High Speed
High Speed (480 Mbit's), Full Speed (12 Mbit/s) and Low Speed (1.5 Mbit/s)
Nothing has been renamed.
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Oh, and...
rayt wrote:
Yeah, buy a pegasos now and every £ you pay will go directly to bbrvs lawyers to sue ann.lu!
From what I hear, it's the other way around. Kemp is sueing Genesi.
IonDeluxe wrote:
*YAWN*
That's an intelligent comment from an intelligent poster. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
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"rather than just look at semi-irrelevant numbers...
I know the PC industry likes to abuse the USB for just about everything:"
That's an intelligent comment from an intelligent poster. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
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Sure. Here (http://wrongpla.net).
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A lot of PC motherboards still ship with older USB ports. A lot of them say "USB 2.0" when they don't support the 480Mbit speed rating.
IIRC someone once pointed out that the name change broke EU law so it's best to say 1.1.
Also the 480mbs is confusing as well, Firewire at 400mbs is measurably faster.
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LOL you got me ;) That's sites pretty good BTW.
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Thats because USB2 is 480Mb/s Bust (peak) where as Firewire is 400Mb/s sustained transfer.