Pegasos or A1?

[DaveP]

@anarchic_teapot

Be fair, you aren't beta-testing the Pegasos board
anymore, it is pretty solid by all accounts. MorphOS
has work to be done sure.

If I am remembering right Pegasos has at least
two linux distros working.

I've just learnt that there are still serious problems with the Linux kernel on the Pegasos.

Lest I start the anti-Fud machine care to provide
a link to tha tor some kind of technical explanation
that existing Pegasos owners can verify?

[DaveP]

@Droid

Best advice I can give you, apart from telling you to
buy both boards, is to wait until March 20th, then
if AOS4 isn't out for A1 owners buy MorphOS/Pegasos.

Why? Because by then there wont be anything other than a miniscule bunch of fanatics who are prepared
to wait any more for AOS4. I certainly won't and will
start bleating loudly for MorphOS on the A1.

[DaveP]

@Lando

Don't get an A1 unless you have money to burn and love Linux (since thats all you'll be able to run on it for ages yet).

Well in theory "a few more weeks".

 Otherwise get a Pegasos, which you can start using right away with MorphOS.

True.

If you really want to run OS4 when (if) it comes out it'd be cheaper to buy a Teron PX board from Terrasoft and an OS4-enabler kit from KDH or Vesalia than it would be to buy an actual A1, thanks to eyetech's rip-off prices.

OS4-enabler kits have not been proven to work on
Teron PX board, nor have I seen definate confirmation of this from any source ( but a lot of
rumour ). Is yours just speculation too or can you
point to somewhere where someone has actually
confirmed that an "OS4 enabler kit" exists and will
work on non A1 boards?

Secondly, the "rip off prices" the last time I looked were not so rip off at all ( given the wrong board was put up by Mai originally ). Can you do the maths
breakdown for us?

I would guess say a TeronPX would be about 10% cheaper bought direct plus shipping costs and local taxation costs.

MAI are selling Teron CX Mai sells Teron CX for 500 USD

Eyetech sell it at 576 USD ( at todays currency conversion rate of 1.6 dollars to the pound ).

Thats a 15% hike, not far off the direct margin.

I just looked into shipping costs, It would cost me 45 dollars to get UPS to ship from there to me. So not that much of a hike after all.

Finally there is the AmigaOS4 cost on top of that - the so called "enabler" which was given away with the cost of the board but now is not ( apparently ).

The prices aren't that different, the cost is not that
much cheaper overall and at the moment what we would be missing from the CX is unknown.

So calling it a rip off is a bit strong.

[DaveP]

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