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

[jorkany]

Do yourself a favor an stroke it for two jabs and release. We're just getting a new mobo with a faster ppc and some stupid processor on a bus that has 64k sram and doesn't do floating point in hardware.

I guess the intended solution to this is to add more XMOS chips. What I'm not clear on is how this is supposed to happen. You can't just attach a bin and dump a few chips into it, after all. Does XMOS sell a board that plugs into the Xorro slot? I doubt it. PCIe?

[jorkany]

But, seeing the price of the xcore chips and the fact that the Xorro slot is in a standard format, suggests that add-on boards could be built pretty cheaply.

Eg imagine an add-on board to run the lights/sound equipment of a small theatre. Because of the nature of XCore, timings are going to be good, and you could scale the whole thing up by simply adding another board.

Or you could just buy something like this for $200 and scale up by plugging additional units into another USB port. On *any* computer.
http://www.dmxsoft.com/details.php?id_pro=LDNANO&cat_pro=28

Things were different in the 1980s, you couldn't just buy anything to add on to your computer. Nowdays you'd struggle to come up with a project that somebody else hasn't already refined and mass produced for use with a bog-standard PC at a fraction of the cost you could build it yourself. Even the X1000 falls into this category, look at all the video cards that support CUDA.

[jorkany]

From the A-eon site:
http://a-eon.com/news.html
"A-EON Technology and its partners Varisys, AmigaKit and Hyperion Entertainment would like to wish the whole Amiga community a happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year. 2011 promises to be an exciting year. AmigaOne X1000 Beta Testers should take delivery of their revision 2 Nemo motherboards during the first quarter of 2011 and all being well, commercial system will be available shortly afterwards."

So is anybody here a betatester? Just wondering what your thoughts are on this.

[jorkany]

An NDA prohibits people discussing it. Sadly

There's NDAs that prohibit people from discussing their feelings on why something they paid over $700 is months late?

[jorkany]

So any beta testers get their board yet?

[jorkany]

There hasn't been any news about the X1000 in some time, however this item appeared over on moobunny today:
http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/186755.shtml

Breaking news or fanciful fiction, you decide.

[jorkany]

Perhaps I'm just spoiled by reading the well researched material of Inquisitor, and looking for a quality of posting there from others, that is just not to be had at present.

Just out of curiosity, what to you think about the quality of the news postings on this site:
http://a-eon.com

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[jorkany]

a) Yes, there are Varisys products, a lot of them.

Hyperion needs to say something about the OS for the board. They are partner. And board realise is dependent on it.
http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136:hyperion-entertainment-cvba-and-a-eon-technology-cvba-announce-strategic-partnership&catid=36:amigaos-4x&Itemid=18

OK, so its two months. Thats a day in Amiga lightyears time.

Whatever. So how about the URL to this page:

If there is still Vesalia X1000 page, there is hope!

[jorkany]

"Happy New Year to all Amigans"...
Pleasant, but not exactly what I'd call news.
I see at least some attempt at content monthly as a pattern and then squat.
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I think the quality has improved dramatically ever since they stopped posting speculative product availability on the front page. I think it would be in their best interest to come up with something new and factual though. As you've probably seen there's a lot of negative speculation out there, but A-eon created this vacuum themselves.

[jorkany]

Actrually it was Krashan who spotted that and reported at morphzone: http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7183&forum=3

Even more interesting from that same thread is that Varisys doesn't source PA6T chips, Aeon must get them from another source.
Well, PA6T - the wrong horse to have bidded on? I've said so and I say so now. The chip was interesting fom its specs, but it is dead like a dodo.

A-eon stated that they sourced them elsewhere with this announcement from the News section of their website. Due to the moronic design of that site it's not possible to directly link to news items, but if you extend the menu shaft by tapping on the menu head, and then touch the News ball, and select the article 22 Dec. 2010, you'll find this:

"Fortunately Varisys, our AmigaOne X1000 hardware partner, had a long-standing relationship with PA Semi and we were able to secure a supply of PA6T CPUs for the AmigaOne X1000 project"

What A-eon doesn't reveal is what source PA Semi directed them to. I presume it was a warehouse of new old stock, but who knows?

In other words, you're faced with redesigning the board for the next generation anyway, in which case it matters a whole lot less if you need to switch to a CPU from another source.

I thought that was the main arguments for sticking with PPC - because the x86 hardware changed too much over time?

Oh well.

[jorkany]

So any beta testers get their board yet?

[jorkany]

So how about it beta testers, got your boards yet?
Rolling into the last month of Q2 2011 here...

[jorkany]

Since this the last day of Q2 2011, and since A-eon stated that the beta X1000 boards would be delivered in Q2 2011, that means that the beta testers will be getting their X1000 boards today!

So how about it beta testers - why don't you report in this thread as you receive your packages today? It should be quite exciting!

[jorkany]

Well Q2 2011 is over with...nobody got their A-eon AmigaOne X1000 beta test board?

Nobody?

I guess A-eon will come up with a new schedule soon! I wonder if it will be Q3 2011 or if they will just go for the end of the year?

[jorkany]

Wow, here we are the middle of Summer 2011!

So any X1000 beta testers out there got their boards yet? If so I hope you're familiar with Linux because going by the latest released pictures that's what you're going to be running - if you ever get a board for your 700+ euros, that is.

http://imageshack.us/f/64/foto2uqb.jpg/

Funny how those pesky board revision numbers just keep going up, isn't it? Also nice that A-eon has decided to add a fan. Hey - maybe that's the ".1" in "Revsion 2.1"!