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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: Karlos on December 20, 2010, 09:05:10 PM
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Ok, this isn't really news to most people by now, but it seems that those that speculated on the PASemi were correct as confirmed in this OS News article:
http://www.osnews.com/story/24151/A-EON_Reveals_AmigaOne_X1000_Processor_Through_Cake
Have to admit, it's a highly amusing gesture on Trevor's part :lol:
Of course, the erstwhile Mr Holwerda can take comfort in the fact that he's getting off with eating a delicious cake and not his actual socks. Or far worse than that, one of Bloodline's old ones :roflmao:
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man, this is cool stuff! this is, why i love the amiga-community! funny ideas and the heart at the right spot. trevor, nice idea!
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X1000 Processor confirmed as PA Semi
I'm shocked!
(Well, not really ;))
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Well, who said A-EON couldnt deliver?
They have actually delivered a cake!
PS: BTW, is this X-1000 beast still being tested, has anyone of the betatesters received a motherboard instead of a cake? I am just curious.
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I bet he wishes he'd said he'd "eat" Angelina Jolie. Imagine A-EON sending her to his door...
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Great delivery Trevor. :cool:
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Cool news!
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old news :)
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@Transition
Already posted ;)
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"Trevor Dick" can post this on Amigaworld but not on here? Hmmmmph.....
Isn't he supposed to be supporting the Amiga community? And he does this by posting on only one of the 2 major forum sites? :rant:
Now that i have had my rant, that is all.
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But when we will have the X1000? summer, christmas, holy week in 2011, 2012...
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Ok, this isn't really news to most people by now, but it seems that those that speculated on the PASemi were correct as confirmed in this OS News article:
http://www.osnews.com/story/24151/A-EON_Reveals_AmigaOne_X1000_Processor_Through_Cake
Have to admit, it's a highly amusing gesture on Trevor's part :lol:
Of course, the erstwhile Mr Holwerda can take comfort in the fact that he's getting off with eating a delicious cake and not his actual socks. Or far worse than that, one of Bloodline's old ones :roflmao:
Excellent press release method. Kudos to A-eon for having a sense of humour, and the guts to interact with the press in a confident & constructive manner.
@Thom - hope the cake was "so delicious & moist" ;-)
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@Thom - hope the cake was "so delicious & moist" ;-)
Yeah, but I hope they didn't follow GlaDOS's recipe for it. Seriously, you should listen to it the next time you play Portal :D
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Mmmm.. geosynthetic membrane-y... arggghhhhh!
[/Homer voice]
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Damn best press release I've ever seen!!!Bloody Hilarious & Class act move Trev:roflmao::laughing::drink:
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Well I wouldn't get to excited to be honest since it's a really poor processor choice .. a quick cut n paste from the email sent out :
"Apple agreed to continue supplying chips to pre-existing PA Semi customers for a limited time period. Fortunately Varisys, our hardware partner, had a long-standing relationship with PA-Semi and we were able to secure a supply of PA6T CPUs for the AmigaOne X1000 project, making it the first and most probably the last desktop computer based on the unique PA-Semi CPU technology as Apple have now closed down the PA-Semi product line"
So basically they've deliberately chosen to continue development using a CPU that is no longer manufactured/developed ... way to go for upgrades and future support!
Hands up who is buying one now ?
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So basically they've deliberately chosen to continue development using a CPU that is no longer manufactured/developed ... way to go for upgrades and future support!
The PA6T paves the way for SMP support under AmigaOS4.x Also check out the new multi-core CPUs being developed by Freescale, in particular the 64-bit dual core, 2.2 GHz P5020 and the 8-core, 1.5GHz P4080.
TrevorD
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Well I wouldn't get to excited to be honest since it's a really poor processor choice .. a quick cut n paste from the email sent out :
"Apple agreed to continue supplying chips to pre-existing PA Semi customers for a limited time period. Fortunately Varisys, our hardware partner, had a long-standing relationship with PA-Semi and we were able to secure a supply of PA6T CPUs for the AmigaOne X1000 project, making it the first and most probably the last desktop computer based on the unique PA-Semi CPU technology as Apple have now closed down the PA-Semi product line"
I guess the NDA was with the warehouse owner!
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What really needs to happen (in my not so humble opinion) is that someone needs to make some new accelerators with these new Freescale processors for the classic Amigas, so that at least there might be some semi-affordable PPC boards so that OS4.x could actually have a larger install base.
Right now with most Amiga owners who hadn't been fortunate enough to get a PPC accelerator, they are stuck at 3.9 as the latest, or possibly Aros 68k once that gets up to scratch.
I would love to get a PPC for my A4000D, but the prices (when you can find them) are simple extortion, especially when you consider it will only really allow OS4.x and a small amount of PPC only software (well maybe there is more software that requires a PPC than I know of, but still for the price of the used ones out there, it can make an Amiga fan cry...)
So bring on some new accelerators for the Classics to make OS4.1 Classic worth making and if it is more on par with the X1000 all the better.
Really, I already have a Mediator, Radeon 9250, etc for my A4000, I just don't have any accelerator in it!
slaapliedje
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In the end it really doesn't make a difference, either you want aOS 4.x and you are willing to pay the premium or you are not. A few dollars one way or the other doesn't make a difference to the target audience. We're not talking about a mass market device after all.
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Sorry just read this update now:
"..AmigaOne X1000 project, making it the first and most probably the last desktop computer based on the unique PA-Semi CPU technology as Apple have now closed down the PA-Semi product line"
Hmmm. It would seem the x1000 and beyond is not a longer term objective for a-eon.
Ohh well. Roll on Q2 2011. I'm sure it will be a quick and painless beta test.