I'm getting sick of this, so I've decided to vent my frustrations and I apologize to anyone in advance if this starts a flame war (as it's quite likely to do I'm afraid). :griping:
One of the main arguments I see from people against the AmigaOne is that it's just a rebadged Teron CX or Teron PX. This is quite simply not true.
The AmigaOne is based on the Teron design, but has several enhancements and modifications that are NOT part of the original Teron specification (although the Teron may have been enhanced to meet these same specs since then, I don't know... but if anything, that makes the Teron a clone of the AmigaOne!)
From Eyetechs site:
Is the AmigaOneG3-SE the same as the MAI Teron Cx? No. During the period leading up to the OS4 development agreement being signed we evaluated the Articia S northbridge chip for possible use in a redesigned AmigaOne. We concluded that it was the most cost-effective chip for the design and proceeded to draw up some new specifications for an uprated, more cost-effectively engineered AmigaOne, the AmigaOneG3-SE. Clearly using the Articia S instead of Escena's custom northbridge design meant that both the schematic design and the PCB layout would be entirely new. MAI logic are a chipset manufacturer, not a PPC motherboard manufacturer, but they had commissioned a low volume, high cost evaluation board, the Teron Cx, to help sell their chipsets. The Teron Cx was never designed to, or intended to, go into volume production. We therefore asked them if they could recommend a design company who was familiar with using the Articia S in PPC motherboard design. They recommended the same (Far Eastern) company that designed their Teron Cx evaluation board.
The new Eyetech AmigaOne design obviously shares a lot of commonality with the Teron Cx board, but more than a cursory glance at the specifications (ATA speed, integrated ethernet, custom firmware, number of active PCI/AGP slots etc) - and the price - of both boards should be enough to convince most people that they really are different designs.
However if you remain unconvinced you are of course perfectly welcome to purchase the Teron Cx evaluation board. It costs $3900, misses many features of the AmigaOneG3-SE, and won't run OS4.
AmigaOneG3SE information at
Eyetech's AmigaOne Information page :rtfm:
TeronCX information at
MAI's TeronCX Information page :rtfm:
FURTHERMORE, I recently saw a posting here on Amiga.org claiming that Bill McEwen in a recent interview was lying when he said "it's our spec". Sorry, wrong. It IS their spec. The fact that the TeronCX quite closely matched it and didn't need much modification is one of the reasons it was chosen I'd imagine. If Eyetech built a board that did NOT meet Amiga's spec, it would NOT be an AmigaOne.
And before anyone calls me a "follower of the name" or "a religious nut", I want to point out strongly and clearly that everything I have said above is true and verifiable from multiple sources. There are only two pieces of "opinion" in the whole thing - the first line where I said I'm sick of this and where I used the words "I'd imagine".
So go stick that in yer pipe and smoke it! :madashell:
