Alan Redhouse comments on the A1-Lite

[AlK]

I have no idea at what speed they are planing
to make those 2-3 iterations

Then please check back what "1Q04" means.. You have read the text, yes? :-) Otherwise I hope for a 'speed' above 1GHz.. ;-)

And yes, I'm well aware that this is just a 'planned' mark, as was every other date set from either side over all the last years from Amiga and Amiga-wannabie companies (and IT corps in general).

Looks like I'll put the 'other board II' on hold then, this looks even better for a cute small homeserver. :-D

Ciao, Alex

[AlK]

Regardeless of the board's specs, it can't be competitive to Apple or to Genesi unless Eyetech kick off AInc's licencing.

Forget Apple for now. That's just another league.. Don't know what's in five years though, here's hoping.

Genesi is marketing a mullti-OS (mostly Linux) PPC board series which just happens to ship with an Amiga-lookalike-OS (I in no way want to lower what has been achieved with MOS, but anyway this is a thread about Amiga hardware ;-) ).

The AmigaOne (Lite)'s purpose is to be marketed as an 'Amiga'. It only is an 'Amiga' when it runs AmigaOS. There must be a reason why Hyperion was in a hurry to get AmigaOS booting on the AmigaOne and I think I'm not taking to wild a guess when this was in preparation of a possible deal with those 'Li(gh)te' boards. No word of Linux or any other OS there.

Or do you just think AmigaOS is not competitive to Linux? _That_ would explain it... :-/

Fact is: Neither you nor I know with what companies are on the receiving end with Genesi or Eyetech. May well be that the former may sell 5000 boards as STB and the latter the same amount as kiosk systems. I just don't know, only that it strongly depends on the markets they target the boards at.

No rant about licensing here, I could, but.., in my book its a good thing(k).At least it leaves a possibility that we'll once again see Amiga computers that run with chipsets purposely designed for them first (like nVidia for Xbox, PPC970 for Apple.. ) Not before some time sure, but yes, here's dreaming ;-)

Good night.

Ciao, Alex