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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Retail News / Sales => Topic started by: DJS on October 29, 2008, 09:15:53 PM
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Elbox Computer company is celebrating its 26th birthday. On this occasion we are offering FREE shipping for online purchases in Elbox Online Store between 29th October and 15th November. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.
The offer applies to most of the products in the online offer, including Mediator (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=2BB) PCI busboards, FastATA/PowerFlyer (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=4FA) controllers, eFlash (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?info=605EF40) Zorro cards, Cocolino (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=515CO) PS/2 mouse interfaces, buffered 4xEIDE (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?info=510EX4) adapters, keyboard interfaces (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?info=530PC12), power converters (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?info=565AT40) and many other accessories (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=5IF).
For offer details, see:
Special Offer page (http://eu-shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=9SP) for customers from the European Union,
Special Offer page (http://shop.elbox.com/cgibin/shop?show=9SP) for customers from other countries.
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Any sign of new products?
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That A4000Di Mediator is a tempting upgrade.
Does anyone know if it will give a significant improvement in my system using a Radion card over my Cybervision 643D?
Off the top of my head I can't think of any other PCI cards I'd add as I have a Deneb installed for USB 2.0 and native Amiga sound is OK with me.
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Edit: Removed incorrect information.
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I bought in a similar promotion last year. Very good delivery and packaging. Recommended.
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Dragon??? Shark???
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@ Lorraine:
Yeah, I was thinking that it was probably not worth the effort unless some new drivers come along for additional devices.
I guess it would have been if I didn't already have the Cybervision card. I use RTG screens for web surfing and the existing card does a good job.
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I thought I'd check to see if the ROM upgrade for my FastATA4000 might have had free shipping, but they've stopped the upgrade completely.
Oh well, that's another $50 they're not getting.
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dragon?????
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Dragon?
Shark?
eFlash 1200?
MPEG decoder drivers?
Elbox USB Stack?
Mediator USB drivers for OS 4.x Sirion Stack?
Pick one...
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@Darrin
if you already own a CV3D and a Deneb I think you are well served.
If you really want to use very high resolutions like 1920x1200 with lots of colours and use lots of screens and notice a lot of lag when switching screens then a Mediator4000 may come handy if you fit a Voodoo3 or -even better if you don't use Warp3D- a Radeon.
If you use a small monitor with screensizes of 1280x1024 or lower a CV3D could be enough.
The only point I don't like about PCI solutions is that there are not high-quality automatic monitor switchers. Switching using an electronic monitor switcher is not as bad but automatic switching is soooo comfortable :-)
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@ Crumb:
Thanks for that. I decided to use the money and upgrade my CPU card to a 40MHz 68040 with 64MB RAM instead. :-)
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I'm still waiting for my upgrade kit (chips only) for the Zorro FastATA Mk-III to Mk-V that handles PIO-5. I ordered it over a month & ½ ago shortly before the September 12th deadline, paid an exorbitant amount for shipping (around US$35), which you really don't know about until you actually commit to ordering the product, and still am awaiting its delivery. A new one would've been about US$20 or so dollars more. I'm going to write to Elbox later today. I wisht that the shipping was as fast as they deducted their charges on my credit card. :pissed: :madashell:
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I know what you mean. I cancelled my order once I saw that BS shipping price! There was no way I was going to give Elbox nearly $80 to upgrade a product I had bought new just a couple of months previously.
It's amazing that they can mail a big, heavy mediator for free, but can't send loyal customers a couple of ROM chips without demanding 3 chickens, a goat and their first born son. :madashell:
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Careful! Elbox doesn't like to have their online store badmouthed in online forums. They're particularly touchy when it comes to Polish monetary policies as well. Now that I'm married, however (my wife is Polish), I feel entitled to speak. In the past, Elbox's online store and their choice of payment processing system (mandated by the Polish government?) were quite misleading. Some of that may have been caused by Poland's tremulous economic situation prior to entry into the EU.
Keep this in mind: Elbox sells software packaged as hardware, primarily because no one likes paying for drivers. That's primarily what allows them to charge exorbitant prices for rebranded commodity hardware.
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I don't have a problem with their prices.
The FastATA4000 may be double the price of the Buddha, but it's a superior piece of hardware for Zorro 3 users (althought the Buddha is perfect for A2000 owners). What gets me is that the ROMs alone would cost me around $80 when a new card would be $120!
Again, cost wise, a Mediator with a 10/100 card and a Radion would be far cheaper than adding a Zorro based graphics card and Ethernet.
They make great hardware (and I have several of their products), but I have to question the way they operate at times.
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I do agree on the price. I paid quite a bit for my Mediator ZIV (~350 USD), but a NIC and Voodoo 3 combined were only 20 USD (not from Elbox). I find myself using OpenPCI drivers whenever possible, however.