Helgis75 wrote:
downix wrote:
@Helgis75
Uh...
Eyetech just resells the Teron boards supplied by Mai. They don't build any boards, nor designed any boards, on their own. it *is* the Teron board from Mai.
It's not quite true. Eyetech did their own modifications to the motherboard. The technology is from Mai Logic, yes. That's true, but Eyetech bought the rights to use the Teron-technology to build AmigaOne-motherboards.
You seem to be
very confused on this point. If you've only been reading those weird Eyetech press-releases about "new Amigas" and other nonsense I don't blame you though... I remember them even introducing the "AmigaOne SE" with "it is not a Teron CX"! Amazing, really.
"AmigaOne XE" is the
trademark that one
distributor, Eyetech, will use to market Teron PX boards. "AmigaOne SE" was the trademark that the same distributor was to use for marketing Teron CX boards (before those were discontinued).
Eyetech has no control whatsoever over hardware design or product planning. Eyetech is a distributor. Period.
Don't forget that. One of the things that happened under the betatesting of AmigaOne-XE mobos in Taiwan, was the intergration of a brand new Firmware.
The firmware is not hardware design, and it is also to be delivered with all Teron boards, regardless of distributor. It has nothing to do with Eyetech. Also, you don't need to go to Taiwan to "integrate" firmware (whatever the hell you mean by that? Develop it? Flash it on a mobo?)
Hyperion will bring up a pressrelease about this shortly...You'll definitely love the features. Also remember that Hyperion allianced with SciTech Software bringing in support of over 170 different graphic systems to AmigaOS! This definitely tells a lot...!
None of which has anything to do with that "AmigaOne XE" is a licensed trademark for the Teron PX, and that Eyetech has nothing to do with the design of the product. They buy boards, then they sell them. Simple as that. Be happy that it's at least not a custom job and even more overpriced than it already has been made.
The only difference between a Teron sold by Eyetech and a "normal" Teron sold by anybody else is that the Eyetech Teron will some time in an undefined future have a code added to the firmware in order to control the hardware market available for AmigaOS users. That's not even a technical/functional difference, but more of a marketing/distribution difference.
