Pegasos II vs AmigaOne

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April does anything apart from slowing down everything? Why it slows down Articia to 100Mhz instead of 133? Why you can use both memory banks on the A1 with unregistered memory and not in the Pegasos1? Incorrect initialization maybe? Why Pegasos II still has compatibility issues with some DDR dimms if it has been set up with conservative settings?

Why PegasosII still has lock-ups with the IDE? The southbridge is still initialized incorrectly (like in the pegasos1)? Problems with the interrupts? Wasn't it an ArticiaS issue?

If doing Articia drivers is not so problematic why the UDMA OS4 drivers are taking do long?

Why A1 hasn't a driver for the on-board soundcard? Why the Pegasos hasn't a Firewire or floppy driver yet?

I advice to wait to compare both solutions in a more advanced state.

There are too many questions without answer yet and I'm so bored. None of both solutions seems to be 100% safe yet. Both parties have to improve their drivers a lot. When the drivers are finished it will be the time to compare.

At the moment a Pegasos2 G3 is clearly a better option if you don't have money or if you don't want to wait until the a1 lite.

If we choose a G4 model the price difference between A1 and Peg2 G4 is quite smaller and the A1 could be an option. But they are both quite expensive...

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@KennyR

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

Although it obviously increases speed of some I/O operations, everyone knows that G4s bus can't take advantage of DDR memory and is limited to a non DDR 133Mhz bus.

About the AGP the benchmarks of Pegasos1 vs Pegasos2 suggested that Pegasos1 AGP was faster (I don't care much, for me the point of using AGP is being able to use cheaper cards)

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"And really of what use would it be, since
you couldn't read Amiga-formated disks with it ?"

you could read pc-formatted disks...
I know that nowadays it's not as important, but it's a little annoying. If the motherboard includes a floppy controller why should I buy a more expensive usb or floptical drive?

If you talk with Laire it would be nice for Mac emus if he leaved free the address from 0x0000 to 0x3000 (yes, like prepareEmul or RsrvCold did). It won't affect MOS but will allow mac emus to be ported easily (who knows, iFusion may even work directly with this small change).

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"And even if the April WOULD slow down the computer it WOULD be worth because it DOES fix ArticiaS issue."

With proper drivers (built with more documentation) probably that "issue" wouldn't exist.

"but nothing compare to the ArticiaS 's hell. "
I still wonder why A1 supports non registered memory in both banks and pegasos1 not. And that leads me to think that it's incorrectly initialized due to lack of documentation.

As there are lock ups with the IDE interface of the southbridge it makes me think that they lack some important info.

BTW, I don't think much people will invest >350€ just to run linux if they can buy much faster x86 computers. I'm interested in AmigaOS-like OSes.