Pegasos to go on sale Monday / Pegasos II to ship September 2003

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My thoughts on this are that no product should be advertised as "obsolete" or "soon to be replaced" for any reason. It's good that they are looking forward to the next design, but that should be transparent to the end user. When the PegasosII is nearing a presentable stage, then it should have been announced that the original Pegasos would be phased out

And then a Zillion of retarded users will start to call BBRV a liar.

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@ Downix

And you've done labratory-condition benchmarks to proove this?

LOL, Downix do you really think you would need labratory-condition benchmarks? I would like to use my AmigaOne within my spare bedroom instead.  :-D

With regard to the board model used, he must have compared the Pegasos to the latest Teron models. I know that Genesi owns an old evaluation board with a Softex ROM. You don't possibly mean to say that they have used this old board for their "labratory-condition" benchmarking?

If so, please, post the results here for everyone to see.

Why don't you ask Genesi  to back up their wild claims?  LOL

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@ JoannaK

f there had been such skism as you suggest, why Mai bothered selling and sending them to Genesi at all?

As can be gathered from earlier message board postings with regard to these older articia chips, according the Bill Buck, Mai and their partners would not have much use for these older chips, as all new AmigaOne-XE and Teron boards will be shipped with newer Articia chips anyway.

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@ Downix

I can ask around to find a 3rd party willing to make one, if you'd back me up on it being a fair and unbiased test.

Be my guest. These tests should be well documented and easily reproducable and I would happily accept them as being genuine.

You're the one challenging it.

So you think I should blindly accept everything BB feeds us? As I said, based on my personal experiences, the performance of currently available G3 solutions are about equivalent.

With regard to processor performance tests, I rather believe the benchmarks provided by IBM and Motorola. Do you truly understand what it would take to objectively test all possible benchmark scenarios? For instance did these "tests", BB refers to, include Altivec optimised software tests? Altivec optimisations can result into performance gains up to 60%, but the performance gains do differ for different types of software.

[System]

Well, if all this is true, then I guess the proper thing to do is see it go out in style.

(music starts)

(people stand in attention)

(Preacher speaks)

R.I.P.        Genesi
So long    Pegasos
Bye Bye   MorpOS

(music fades)

(Crowd starts to speak amongst one another...)

It was so young and full of energy.
How can this be?
It's such a tragedy.

First H&P, and now this.
When will it end?

 :-(

Crowd starts to disassemble and leave the building, but not without remembering what could have been.

Not without looking upon it one last time.

Bye...

We love you...

 :-(

and so ends another episode of "The last Amiga".

Be sure to tune in later for the following episode...

"Pegasos II"

You really don't want to miss it.
It's really a show stopper.