Amiga One vs. Pegasos

[Van_M]

I have been away from the amiga computing for 8 years but lately, the whole situation with x86/intel(AMD)/microswimpe has started pissing me off and Im gonna buy a pegasos2 the coming Christmas. This system rocks!
 I don't know about amigaone/Os4... I think, as an objective outsider, that the Genesi team has shown more professionalism over this situation and their product is performing better than what OS4 has promised to deliver (and still hasn't)....  I spend the whole night comparing the systems and the facts behind the companies, and Genesi/Pegasos/MOS seem to have a clear advantage over amiga, eyetech and hyperion... the only think we can hear from amiga inc. is we WILL do this and we WILL do that, while genesi is quickly developing strong foundations for a succesfull system...
I found my jaw to the floor after playing the video showing MOS booting!:-)  
Im definitely attending any upcoming public demonstration of Pegasos and MOS.

pardon my bad English, I come from Greece

[Van_M]

All the pegasos reviewers say that the board is SMOKINGLY fast compared, even with the fastest classic amiga configurations. I think it makes sense too.... about professionalism, the amiga inc. gives the impression of a company ran by two guys in a small office, giving phonecalls to a small computershop (eyetech) regarding a homebrew piece of hardware... even the bundle of their mobo is poor compared with a pegasos which is waaay more attractive (games, t-shirt) and is asking for much less. Just look at how Genesi handled the Atrisia bug matter....  

[Van_M]

Don't use the firewire thing as an argument cause the Amigaone isn't equiped with one, anyway.
I'm just trying to point things out, as an outsider. I haven't been into Amiga computing for 8 years and now Im looking for an alternative platform to get away from the wintel platform..... I guess with the stupidity that's ruling the amiga world, I'll have to stick to my pc....
OK, be a PC person for a while, that's used to companies like Microsoft, AMD and NVidia. Say you are tired with the "commercialism" (oh yeah we've heard that too!) of the wintel platform, and want to investigate about alternative platforms. One day you learn about a revived computer platform called amiga and you find it interesting. You visit the websites and read interviews of the CEOs Bullsh***ng each other. What would you thing? Would you find that professional?
To the outside world professionalism = computers that have a software to run, companies that are paying hardware enginners to fix chipset bugs, lists of software products that are under development, 3d games that look great (Epic) and fancy packages that contain a thousand useless little things that u don't need but it's nice to have for free.
On the other hand, what would you expect someone to think of a company that has to be the one with the most missed deadlines in the computer world?
I'm sure, someone will come up with an argument like "we don't need people who don't know the amiga, who are not dedicated users".... The Amiga will never die, right huh?!?

[Van_M]

Don't use the firewire thing as an argument cause the Amigaone isn't equiped with one, anyway.
I'm just trying to point things out, as an outsider. I haven't been into Amiga computing for 8 years and now Im looking for an alternative platform to get away from the wintel platform..... I guess with the stupidity that's ruling the amiga world, I'll have to stick to my pc....
OK, be a PC person for a while, that's used to companies like Microsoft, AMD and NVidia. Say you are tired with the "commercialism" (oh yeah we've heard that too!) of the wintel platform, and want to investigate about alternative platforms. One day you learn about a revived computer platform called amiga and you find it interesting. You visit the websites and read interviews of the CEOs Bullsh***ng each other. What would you thing? Would you find that professional?
To the outside world professionalism = computers that have a software to run, companies that are paying hardware enginners to fix chipset bugs, lists of software products that are under development, 3d games that look great (Epic) and fancy packages that contain a thousand useless little things that u don't need but it's nice to have for free.
On the other hand, what would you expect someone to think of a company that has to be the one with the most missed deadlines in the computer world?
I'm sure, someone will come up with an argument like "we don't need people who don't know the amiga, who are not dedicated users".... The Amiga will never die, right huh?!?

[Van_M]

my apologies for the double post... I'm so stupid....

[Van_M]

@Alkis Tsapanidis (AmiGR)

Hey mate  :-)
I'm originally from Veria
We're not very far! Are there any active Amiga users in Thessaloniki? Have u checked out the greek pegasos/Morphos website (http://www.pegasos-hellas.com)? It's quite embarasing with all those spelling mistakes! I wonder who runs it.... and for what reason!

[Van_M]

greenboy wrote:

Have u checked out the greek pegasos/Morphos website (http://www.pegasos-hellas.com)? It's quite embarasing with all those spelling mistakes!

You spelled 'embarrassing' wrong ;  }

..I guess if it matters, HELP the guy already! :  }  I'd proof his pages but I don't know the language. Or I'd send a translator -  oh, wait! - that's practically what I'm trying to do right now {AmiGR? ; }

Anyway, I've talked with the site owner and he seems to be a good guy.

I wonder who runs it.... and for what reason!

I think the reason is pretty easy to grasp - even if I don't know Greek {PhiNiXi is supposedly based on three Greek characters - but from me, after all, that's just hearsay ;}

well sorry mate but as I mentioned before I'm originally from Greece. Greek is my first language. English is my second. The guy who made the greek morphos page is probably (99,9999%) greek so don't try to be smart about my English. On the other hand, if the guy who made the page is non-greek, I apologize!
As for the help you are telling me to offer, I tried to email him (her?) but the address seems to be dead!
Well, the greek Amiga community is ranging from really small to non-existant.  So the guy will have to promote the computer to a new, fresh consumer market. This is gonna be hard, really hard! Even Apple isn't doing well in Greece so you know what I'm talking about.

[Van_M]

Oh yeah I forgot to mention, when I'm talkin' of spelling mistakes, I mean the kind of mistakes a 7 year old would do! And of course, typing on a message board and creating a profesional web-page that represents a popular hardware/software developer, isn't of the same significance!