AmigaONE or Pegasos, which one will it be sir?

[Glaucus]

The only thing AOS4-related which was demonstrated was a really buggy 3.x/4 hybrid which ran on a friggin A4000.

I hate to reply to early posts on an already long thread, but, do you really think it's fare to pass any judgement on software that's not even in beta testing?  Every software ever writen was pretty buggy at one point, so you're not saying anything useful or informative here.  Hyperion has never claimed to be close to a final product, they never siad it will be out next week, or next month, so to judge it's "bugginess" is just uncalled for and unfair.

I understand you've made a choice but there are merits to both systems and no body needs mis-information.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

lets all start a new thread "Playstation 3 Vs Xbox"

No way man, whenever the PS3 was demoed it wasn't even running.  Plus it has no games available!  And I don't really know for sure since I've never seen it, but it looks ugly!

 :-P

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

I will bet anybody here $1000 USD that AOS4 will not even be DEMONSTRATED in any form on the A1 this year!!! It's a friggin impossibility!

This year or next year, I don't care, as long as they get it right.

The way I see it, technical merits aren't the only thing here.  We're talking about a computer that will enjoy a very very small market.  I would rather by an inferior system that has more software available.  I think the Amiga name can draw more developers and users in, and in the long run could come out ahead of MOS.  MOS & Pegasos might be better technically, but that doesn't interest me.  I wouldn't spend $2 on a system that has no future.

If it turns out that the AmigaOne has no future then it's bye-bye Amiga and I'll just move on to other things.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

There is no reason to fear that AOS4 doesn't run on the AmigaOne. Furthermore there is no uncertainty that AOS4 doesn't run on the AmigaOne. Not now, not when the A1 is sold, and not any time next year.

You know, if you told me you wanted a MOS/Pegasos system for it's technical merits I could respect that.  But when you sit here and talk out of your ass about #### you have no clue about it gets really annoying, really fast.  Why don't you take your thoughts on the A1/AOS4 and stick 'em up your ass!

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

It seems you need very special hardware for the AmigaOne as it seems that the BIOS does not accept common devices and RAM. Not user-friendly I would say.

That's more common then you might think.  Even ASUS boards have problems with specific ram modules when they are first released.  Typically, all the BIOS upgrades they release just add support for more and more ram modules.  Currently ASUS' new KT400 (A7V8X) motherboards support only 6 or 7 different PC3200 DIMMs.  That is bound to change with later revisions of the BIOS.  That's the nice thing about a flashable BIOS, and the AmigaOne is flashable, so no worries really.  Since it's still being developed they have bigger worries then to make sure it works with every ram chip out there.

And just to put my money where my wouth is, check the bottom of this page: ASUS A7V8X Spec Sheet

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Apart from buying second hand hardware and upgrades since 1995, what else has there been in terms of computer hardware?

AMD & ASUS.  Who says my next computer has to be an Amiga?  It's one thing to build a computer, it's another to build a market.  I'm not interested in who makes a better PPC box, I want a useable market that will make the PPC box worth it's keep.  That's the bottom line, and I couldn't care less what a few geeks think about the hardware.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

I recently caught a demo of Pegasos ( a Beta unit) running MorphOS. The machine had a g3 running @600 MHz - the CPU was cool to the touch with no fan being used!

heh, maybe that's because it had no software to keep it busy!  :-P heh, just kidding, had to throw that in.

  - Mike