KennyR wrote:
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 PC100. Needless to say, they aren't small gains.
A1 PC100 Eh ?... Sounds like more FUD!
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.
* 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.
Again people don't listen.
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 !!!!
Faster AGP. Forget that it's labelled x1, thanks to Articia its still faster than AmigaONE x2 AGP.
And you make your comparison on what information.
Or is this more FUD Spreading ?
* Infrared IRDA control. A1 has none.
But does have a IRDA header.
* Two ethernet ports, one gigabit. A1 has just one, and its not gigabit.
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.
* Two PS/2 ports. A1 has one.
Thats a bit odd I've got a Mouse and keyboard plugged in here ... that makes 2.
* Free firmware updates. A1 earlybird owners had to pay to get their bios updated for OS4.
This was a blunder that a few people with G3 boards, got stung by. But all subsiquent ugrades are free. Didn't the peg2 ship with a corrupt bios. See every side is human and makes mistakes.
* Free Amigalike OS bundled. OS4 was quoted at $160.
Were did you get that figure from ? No price has been quoted AFAIK More FUD kenny ? OS4 is FREE to earlybird purchasers and AFAIK the offer still stands upto the point when OS4 final version ships. Then the earlybird offer with end.
