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

[Iggy]

Didn't read all the way through the thread, but a surprising number of you don't seem to be aware of the x1000's cxPU. It was even mentioned breify in one of their own press statements.
 
It's a PA Semi PA6t formerly running at 1.8Ghz, now clocked at 2.0 Ghz.

[Iggy]

So any beta testers get their board yet?

Somehow I doubt it.

As to the CPUs, A-eon and Varisys secured them when PA Semi put out a request for final orders.
Its no great mystery. PA Semi was shutting down production and didn't want new customers (that might depend on an item that was eol).

[Iggy]

Maybe you were being a little harsh there on Barry, Franko.
He'll probably sell more computers then A-eon and the Natami team combined.
And you can run Cloanto's software on them better then it will run on your Mac.

[Iggy]

Maybe so, but either one is a hell of a lot closer to an Amiga than a PC clone board in a novelty case...

Probably true, in that they're both going to be seriously over priced.

And we all have our own opinions on what an Amiga can be.
From my viewpoint it can even be a Mac.

[Iggy]

The only thing I can imagine at this point, considering the PowerPC restirction forced upon us, would be something based on a many-core QorIQ, the 64bit version, with Altivec put back in. It's rumored that Altivec will return and be in some QorIQ chips, but not announced or known for sure

T5020 and T5040, successors to the P5010 and P5020 where shown in Freescale presentations a couple months ago.
It was also announced that these e5500 cored products would only be the first products that would receive an improved implementation of AltiVec.

While the P5010 and P5020 should only be reaching the market this summer (making the time line for successors questionable), they have been formally announced (and they are confirmed products).

The biggest problem I see with the e5500 cores is their support of fewer PCIe lanes (then the PA6T) and a somewhat restrictive number of lane configurations.

[Iggy]

cuz no used (or new) Apple products are allowed in my house:p

Never used one myself, ever, till now (not even an Apple II).
But PPC Mac runs MorphOS great and would work just as well for OS4.
My own bias against Steve Jobs and Apple does not extend to second hand hardware. After all, my purchase of this equipment does nothing to increase either Jobs or Apple's bank accounts.

Your attitude is emotional not rational.

But then, you are an Amiga community member.

[Iggy]

been looking at this *old* technology laptop
  http://www.ebuyer.com/product/258876

should run WinUEA very nicely indeed...

ta
Tom UK

Not a bad buy Tom (if my conversion from pounds to US dollars is correct).
I'm seeing new AMD based dual core laptops going for only a little more then that in the U*S right now.
But its not really fair to compare off the shelf X86 hardware with limited production PPC boards, is it?

[Iggy]

hehe - no it's not - specially if the shelf stuff outperforms the PPC bleeps by a major factor

ta
Tom UK

For people focused on running legacy software , you have a strong argument.
Scary when I find myself siding with Dammy.

[Iggy]

I've got my eye on this little beauty.....

 http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_Ethos_8943G_1005702.html

:lust:

Ouch! You definitely must have more disposable income then me, Nicholas.

[Iggy]

I sense autism again........

+1

Seriously beyond autism.
I fear this thread has gotten bad enough to make you dumber just by reading it.