nothing against BBRV
But He has a vested interest in trying to scare you. Much of what you hear posted on this site by
" innocent " Amiga users are Morph guy's making " Casual asides " and the occasional troll whose only agenda is to spread hate and discontent. I have posted a few rant or two about that in the past.
NO I am not trying to flame just explaining why there is so much negative chatter.
Remember Genesi gets it's AtriciaS chips from the same people Eyetech does so they both have a similar problems in development and shipment.Both companies are currently trickling out boards at a slow rate.
I own an Amigaone G3 600 mhz all I can tell you I that it is real and it works. I know that there was a number available back in December. So if you had a order for a G3 back then it should have been filled. The other thing I can tell you that the activity level on OS 4 development is going on at a furious pace. Thought the bug reports and subsequent chatter has slowed down of late on the OS4 Dev list. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.
The few things you have to remember is Mai Logic has more than a slight interest in getting these
chips and boards to market. They have invested allot of time and money developing these chips. As BBRV and chums have pointed out the Linux boards are the same as the Amigaone boards minus the AOS extensions in the ROM. So there is a market for these boards outside of Amiga and Eyetech. The other thing is Chip set revisions are nothing new to motherboard and chipset manufacturers just look at VIA and SIS as boards are made using a chipset certain bugs are discovered so board manufacturers modify their motherboards to work around these bugs. Just like Eyetech with the jumpers and mach chip and the Pegasos April. Of course ASUS doesn't release a press statement. They just work around it till the next version of the chipset is released and make a motherboard around that sometimes keeping the same board number sometimes not. That's why board revision numbers can play a big part in BIOS upgrades and performance.
Things are moving a bit slow because unlike the PC market where a motherboard manufacturer will churn out a half million cheap boards and if they turn out to have a bug in them that slows down
performance or makes them slightly unstable they don't care. The average PC user won't know or will just toss it and buy a different one. Eyetech and Genesi don't have that luxury. Amiga/Peg boards are not cheap and the user expects to get years of bug free service out of them. So they are understandably cautious the don't want to turn on the faucet full bore until they know the boards work well neither company can afford a major recall.
Kurt
