Pegasos II vs AmigaOne

[KennyR]

@iondeluxe

What you call freeloading is just what users want. They want reasonably priced hardware and an Amiga-like OS that is available and usable now, with software. Trying to claim that there is something wrong and bad with letting them choose just because it doesn't favour the AmigaIncONE is just sour grapes.

[KennyR]

NeRp wrote:
How is it that this legendary Pegasos 2 is so much more "advanced" then?

Well, you asked for it:

* DDR. Oops, I dared say it. For advanced claims, ask Hammer the advantages PC2100 DDR-266 has over A1's simple PC133 (edit). Needless to say, they aren't small gains.

* ATA100 UDMA. Embarassingly, it seems that ArtiaS bugs that have long been denied may just make this impossible on A1. I hope for Eyetech's sake there is a fix. The idea of an $800 board running IDE on PIO4 is very depressing.

* Faster AGP. Forget that it's labelled x1, thanks to Articia its still faster than AmigaONE x2 AGP.

* Infrared IRDA control. A1 has none.

* Two ethernet ports, one gigabit. A1 has just one, and its not gigabit.

* Two firewire ports capable of 400MB/s. A1 has none.

* Free firmware updates. A1 earlybird owners had to pay to get their bios updated for OS4.

* Free Amigalike OS bundled. OS4 was quoted at $160.

[KennyR]

ikir wrote:
KennyR simply you are trolling. The information you give are wrong or incomplete.

If I'm wrong, I didn't intend to be. I did surf for quite a while to make sure before I posted those comparison specs. But that was not trolling, not even by AmigaWorld's strange standards.

As i know all the A1 XE models have the AC97 integrated.

A mistake on my part. I apologise. I'll edit my post.

@xeron
Linux can use Pegasos firewire. But that's really beside the point in a purely hardware comparison.

[KennyR]

rayt wrote:
How do you know that? Just because Bill Buck said so? Or is there a proof for that?

Not Bill Buck. Gerald Carda I think, although I could be wrong. He designed the April fix for the first Pegasos and should know all of ArticiaS's "features". Apparently ArticiaS makes it impossible to get the full bandwidth out of the PCI/AGP/IDE bus without hanging it or getting corrupt data.

[KennyR]

JurrasicCamper wrote:
Yeah sure you can use PC100 if you want, but why ?
I've got 1GB here 512MB kingston 133 ECC & 512MB Hynix Non-ECC, with a 750FX at 1GHZ.

Ok, PC133 then. But still not as fast as DDR and you know it.

i'll spell it out for you slowly so you understand.

III.TTT.SSS AAA. LLL.III.NNN.UUU.XXX. III.SSS.SSS.UUU.EEE !!!!

If OS4 comes out and can't do UDMA, what will your excuse be then? Will you blame Hyperion in triple letters too?

True its is 100Mb, but I'd love to see you post a screen grab of RCFTPD 2.74 using the gigabit port under morphos, so we can all see what speed the OS actually can push . I bet its not doesnt come near 100Mb so whats the point in having it.

* Two firewire ports capable of 400MB/s. A1 has none.

True.... cant think of a need for them.

You're intentionally sidestepping the point. The point is, these do make the Pegasos-2 technically superior whether you like it or not or call it FUD or not or find any use for the extra power or not. So get over it already.