Hyperion/A-EON introduce us to the AmigaOne X1000. A new beginning?

[the_leander]

yes, this coming from a very reputable source:roflmao::rolleyes:

The problem is that unless the crap really hits the fan, all you are likely going to see thanks to the NDA is anonymous leaks of info.

Funnily enough many similar leaks started out on moo just prior to the exposure of the fraud surrounding the AmigaOne's hardware issues that were being covered up by the kindly mod team over at AW.net at the time.

Moo might by many standards be written off as a hotbed of nonsense and trolling. But the fact is, when real crap went down, it was spilled on moobunny first.

[the_leander]

Play the odds.

Fair enough.

What are the odds that someone is friends with both at the level required to obtain such knowledge?

Why would you need to be friends with both?

Not to mention the reference to the Friedens...

Given that Acube have effectively had to release their own hacked copy of AOS4 to work with their new 460 as well as the public statements by Hyperion that simply don't mention the new system at all, it's quite possible to extrapolate this even from the outside.

Again playing the odds, this wouldn't exactly be the first time we were told as a community that everything was on schedule and rocking, only to be told months after the event that nothing had been touched in months... And it's not as though Hyperion have a proven track record of screwing over their partners or anything either, is it?

Not likely.

Plenty likely, if you know your recent Amiga history.

[the_leander]

Dunno. In order to say:
"Trevor and Ben Hermans almost came to blows in the last meeting."
would you not have to BE at such a meeting?

If not, then we're talking what...2nd hand story, 3rd hand?

Whether it was stated by one or both parties, or an independent witness or there in person, it still negates your requirement to be friends with both.

And again, it's not like Hyperion don't have a track record of screwing over their partners.

Or as you said:

Oh wait...too logical. heh.

Quite.

[the_leander]

Did application for betatesting went OK?

Applications have been processed and money taken, that said, all those on the beta testing lists have been curiously quiet about receiving their beta boards.

That last part alone would have me very worried.

[the_leander]

No. I just doubt this particular posting.

It may be nothing, but looking back at history when it comes to leaks on moobunny of this nature, at least from my point of view, I'd be prepared at least to take it on board.

YMMV of course, but the profound silence from both camps for months on the issue should at least have alarm bells ringing, especially if you're one of the unfortunates who have stumped up cash for the beta program.

[the_leander]

Firstly multiprocessing doesn't have to be symetrical in order to bring a performance boost. Secondly 64bit will only give you metrical truckloads of RAM. Both can theoretically be useful on OS4 but we are talking about software that hasn't been written yet.

Doesn't that all more or less back up his initial statement that these shiny new wiz bang cpu's aren't going to bring much to the table?

[the_leander]

I dunno - 64-bit addressing would at the very least be useful for multimedia production software - even if it uses 32-bit pointers, you can at least give it up to a full 4GB of RAM if it needs it.

Only if the OS has support for something like PAE. And again we're back to there being little or no software that could take advantage of the functionality (the one possible exception being blender, however given that when I last saw that software demo'd it was more unstable than Charles Manson I'm tempted to discount even that).