Eyetech updates AmigaOne prices

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The OS might fly with little ram, but some apps and games will require loads of memory. Also, the Classic Amiga ran so exellent with little memory because it used few colors in low resolution.. For example in a paint program, a 640*480 image with 256 colors takes 300Kb while a 1024*768 32bit image takes 3Mb. For publishing you'd probably want even higher resolutions, and imagine this image with multiple layers!
Besides, SDRAM is cheap now

btw, the prices on eyetech's page, are they in EUR or GBP?

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@Troels_E

 Good question!!! I actually think the G3 will be the fastest in some cases. When the G4 cache(256K) has been filled, and the G4 needs to page the slow SD-Ram, things will definitely slow down. The G3(512K) will still be running at full speed, with no wait-states because it's still adressing within the cache mem.
 The whole RAM interface on the A1, is a bit of a mystery so far, until further hardware details emerges from Eyetech.
 The RAM interface is my only complaint regarding the A1 hardware design. The use of registered RAM is expensive and slow, and it shouldn't be nescesary on a desktop. The register part of the RAM steals 1 clockcycle, and depending on the BIOS latency setup, the access will be slowed with at least 2 clockcycles, when set to lantency 2(CL2). If things are really bad, latency 3(CL3) will be used, so the register and CL3 will produce 4 wait-states... :-(

!8O)

/SpaceMan

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@KennyR

 Good idea to get the RAM from Eyetech! The RAM interface design on the Articia chipset, seems to be very critical(crappy...).
 But if you purchase RAM from another dealer, make sure that YOU GET THE CL2 type RAM, Not CL3!!!
 The latency/registered RAM issue, indicates an unstable SD-RAM interface, only saved by the fact, that it's needs all types of hardware tricks to function properly.

Take a look at Crucial's RAM link.SDRAM 133

The CT16M72S4R7E/ CT32M72S4R7E/ CT64M72S4D7E RAM's and only these types should work, but I could be mistaken.

!8O)

/SpaceMan

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How about using those huge memory resources for RAD: drive. Just copy OS to it and it should be fast to do warm reboot.

Especially if some programs behave badly.  :-)