New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

[haywirepc]

I'm interested in hearing the specifics of the specs and also the price as well... If this is 3-4ghz I'd be interested, otherwise forget it.
 
I just don't understand paying so much for the current very old and outdated spec hardware. Yes I understand smaller runs means higher prices, but the difference is just too dramatic for my tastes...
 
Will be interesting to hear the price of this.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

I don't think the hopes about price point are well placed. If people are willing to spend 550$ for a 667mhz motherboard...
 
Its reasonable to assume that they will pay 750$ for a greater than 1ghz board, and so that price would seem more appropriate to the people selling it.
 
Also, if this does include some custom chips or hacks to run classic apps better, they can justify the price being that high.
 
I for one will be really surprised if its 650$ or less.
I can't ever justify spending that much when for the same money I can literally get a quad cpu socket tyan motherboard with 4 quad core cpus plus 8 gigs of ram. - Essentially a 16 core powerhouse.  
That kind of brute force will blow the doors off anything amiga.
 
Yes I understand, its not about brute force or power, its about having the user enviorment you prefer, with applications you have become accustomed to and like and so on, but still, I feel like os4 is just a dead end running on old outdated spec processors. As it stands now, I'd be happy to have one, but I can't justify spending that much on what can not really be my main computer due to all the limitations they still have.
 
Lets hope they stop the puzzle crap and release the specs/info and price soon. I suppose this was their "Most ambitious project to date" ?

Until I see the specs, I'm not at all impressed. Interested, but not impressed.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Here is a quad socket motherboard for amd opteron with a starting bid of 65.00$ - http://cgi.ebay.com/Arima-AMD-Opteron-Quad-Core-Socket-F-3000-series-Server_W0QQitemZ390137085263QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Networking_Components?hash=item5ad5fb7d4f
 
No bids too... 1 day left on auction.
 
Cpu's and server ram can be found cheap too, if you know where to shop.
 
This is certainly just an example, if they charge 650$ or 750$ for this new amiga motherboard, you get so much less horsepower than you can get going with a tyan or similar quad socket board. Also remember, you don't need to populate the board with all 4 cpu's at once, you buy can one or two and wait for prices to come down on them before adding more.
Same goes for ram...
 
Before I bought a 1.0ghz power pc motherboard, I'd have to seriously consider buying a 16 cored beast of a linux pc. Hey I'm a big fan of 68000 series microprocessors, and power pc chips also, but there comes a time when you have to realize that your just limiting yourself and what you can accomplish with your computer by holding on to outdated tech.
 
The day that they port to x86, or get to modern cpu speeds another way, I will happily plop down just about any price for os4. Until then,
I merely watch and hope.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

I gotta admit this puzzle thing is a bit annoying but certainly a good marketing move. I just checked since its offically the 5th here but nothing new shows up on that site yet.
 
Ahh well I guess by the morning something may pop up...
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

I agree with you. They are certainly hyping it up with statements like this.
 
Many nerdly people are starting to  migrate to 16 core machines and 64 bit ridiculous powered machines. It will be interesting to see how this stacks up to those kind of systems.
 
One thing I will say is that brute force is not always the best solution
to a problem. I still marvel at what a 7mhz amiga could do back in the day, especially when compared to a 33mhz 386 or even the start of the 486 line. Amiga just did it better through the partnership of hw/sw, and ofloading sound and video to the custom chips, freeing the processor
as much as possible. That was thinking that was 10 years ahead of its
time.  Perhaps returning to that model is exactly what this will be.
 
"Remeber when amiga could do things other computers could not?"

Yes I remember it well, and I hope to see this again, but I'm doubtful that
it can be done with the resources they possess. Perhaps however, I am optimistic at least that it may be possible, given the right people working on it and supporting it. I have to admit for the first time in a long time I'm excited to see what is coming down the pipeline.
 
Hyperion has at least proven it can deliver.
 
Steven