Update from Eyetech (after my review)

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I don't think anyone "set up" traps or feelings that Eyetech is merely a reseller of MAI boards.

But it is no lie that the Teron CX, PX, and Eyetech's AmigaOne lines are very very similar, perhaps barring some cost-efficiency changes, and a few extra minor features.

It is one thing to tweak a motherboard design that someone else made and get another company to bring it to profitability for you.

It is another altogether to design one from scratch, in-house, and produce it using your own means.

This is the difference I think people are "setting up", and believe me, it is not a trap to build your machines not far from your head office, and have your chief engineers stand over the production lines!

Eyetech are doing the A1-Lite, via a 3rd-party outfit, with close collaborations with MAI. That doesn't change the nature of the AmigaOne - a tweaked reference board, built in Taiwan, 2 weeks away shipping time..

AmigaOne-Lite is going to be a new board, but currently is merely a shrunken version of the A1, with a Radeon stuck in the middle.

Drawing up specifications is a lofty task indeed!
I can do that, and I'm no hardware designer. Even Fleecy can do it!

PowerPC!
PCI slots!
AGP!
64MB of Memory!!!!

.. which footballer shall we name it after?

=Neko=

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@Elwood:

I don't see how this comment is related to Eyetech work. It's not a post about AInc.

When Alan Redhouse says this:

Although we have a close working relationship with MAI, we have materially dictated the board design and specifications

I can make jokes about how they dictated specifications. Alan Redhouse "materially dictating specifcations" is just as bad, if not worse, than Fleecy doing it.

I like the idea of a Gazza <-> G2 Amiga platform, it fits well, better than "Zico"

=Neko=

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@Seehund:

In Eyetech's defense, there are some relatively dodgy PS/2 keyboards out there, and more intriguingly, some even dodgier KVM boxes (unfortunately I own a cheap 4-way KVM, and they cause havoc with my Pegasos - hold down shift, and tap an arrow key to jump to end of line or whole pages in GoldED or a Shell, and the entire input system goes haywire.. this is a keyboard issue, I'm told, because my KVM is screwing everything up)

=Neko=