Haynie's Garage Sale

[Iggy]

Right, and people are lining up to pay $3000 for one.  I personally feel a non-working AAA prototype board is worth more than an X1000.

Maybe you do Tone, but are you buying it?
Personally, if I had the money, I'd be placing it on the operational hardware.

[Iggy]

I bid on it, though I stopped far short of the current bid.

However, if I was offered either the prototype or an X1000, I'd go for the prototype.  X1000s, should they ever come out, will be far easier to come by.

The biggest problem with the X1000 is that production will be limited to whatever PA6T processors A-eon has already secured (as the processor is out of production).

[Iggy]

I have a feeling that X1000 is only getting 1 run.. and users wont even get hands on the board until next year. or maybe holidays 2011.  You notice there hasnt been 1 posted screenshot or shot of a working system in months?

Whether its one run or a few small ones, its still limited to the chips they have on hand.
Maybe now that they've assembled the first five boards (on what should be the final design) maybe we'll see a few more shots of these things running.
Still, this isn't the design that's going to re-invigorate the PPC Amiga market.

At this rate, Amiga is likely to be associated with X86 machines in the future.

[Iggy]

What type of comparisons?

You want AMD C-50 @ 1.0Ghz (9 watts) vs Intel Atom D525 @ 1.8Ghz (13 watts)?

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Anyway, Cyberlink PowerDirector 9 has ATI Stream support.

Absolutely! While the AMD processor is no more powerful than the Intel processor (they are about on par), AMD's APUs have much better graphics than the chipsets currently offered for Atom.

And AMD processors now draw LESS power than Intel.

I'm all for any non-Intel product.

Let's all go ARM, AMD, or VIA!

[Iggy]

Well, Intel has 17 watt Intel Core i5-2537M @1.4 GHz, but it's $250.

That is amazing. I haven't heard of that one yet.
What do the supporting chipsets draw?

Max Turbo Frequency
2.3 GHz!