Pegasos to go on sale Monday / Pegasos II to ship September 2003

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Alkemyst

The cards are on the table for everyone to view. If you do not want to buy a PegasosOne ;-) then you don't have to. But then you will have to wait. If you want to start developing for the future products right now, there will be a limited chance to get the PegasosOne hardware before it is sold out completely. Buy now or wait. Your choice!

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Alkemyst

Sorry but your action here says to me that you dont really think what has happened is a good thing.

You have your Peg unlike some unlucky others

But yet you sit here & have posted a hell of a lot on this thread & have been hitting the reload button no doubt & have nearly replyed to every post on this thread.

Well, this was a surprizing thwist and I first had some split feelings about it all. But the whole issue matured in my head and now I really think it's a good thing. I guess I made quite a lot of posts here during that process  :-D .

I have seen your trend when Aone or Aos4 held back for what ever reason & you have hammered down.

I have?  :-?
I think I might have been pointing out an available alternative for those still waiting, but I have respect for the OS4 effort. (But I have a lot lesser respect for the "A1" hardware for obvious reasons).

But now its on the other foot your tone is now trying to sound more of a person of fair & realistic reason.

But that dont count cos that is not what you were willing to show with Aos4/Aone delays.

The OS4 supporters are still waiting for "their" PPC OS to be released. They have waited a LOONG time now. The A1 customers are still waiting for their HW, HW which will still be Articia-S based with all it's limitations. This wait for the new Pegasos will be different in that sense that it will be new and better HW. The PegasosOne has allready been in the Articia-S realms. Been there and done that, so to say. MorphOS exists and is being used by many people. I will continue to use MorphOS and follow it's evolution. That is the difference between the "waiting" for the two solutions, and that is what makes it uncomparable. It also explain my different "Point of View" towards the waiting for the two systems.

Where are all thoses MOS ppl now saying dont wait for Aone-XE/Aos4 get a peg.

I'm here!  :-D
Get a Pegasos now! Get it on Monday, because it might quickly run out of stock!  :-)

But now its OK to ask ppl wanting a Peg to wait even longer but it was not ok to ask ppl to wait for an Aone/Aos4

If you want a usable system based on the Articia-S performance and specifications, the PegasosOne will be available for a short time starting from monday(?). You can use this with MorphOS as you used to use your Amiga. Or you can wait until late summer (at least IMO) for a new computer with better specification.

I guess you could also continue waiting for the Articia-S based A1 HW, and the OS4. It's not impossible that you can start using your Articia-S based A1 as an Amiga (due to OS4) by the same time as the new PegasosTwo will be available. But it's of course your choice to make!  :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ SlimJim

Since I have made a great deal of the posts in this thread, I will propably be one of those "usual suspects". So I will give my view of it.

But I would like to ask you to consider how your posts
would be phrased if the name 'Genesi' in this announcment
had been replaced with "Eyetech" - or indeed any of the
Triarchy companies.

*IF* Eytech had released the A1 *together* with the OS4 half year ago, I would propably have had it a month or so after it's release. I would have been using it till this day. And if Eyetech then declares that they will make a new, much better computer, and release it in late summer, I would have been very glad. If they at the same time would announce that there will only be a limited numbers of the "old" A1 to be sold until the new computer is released, I would have been somewhat bothered. But not very *much bothered*, since I allready would have had my A1 secured.

A lot of "if"s as you can see. Because that is the only way to compare the two situations. You can not just switch names, you have to look at the accomplishments too!

Genesi has delivered. Eyetech+Hyperion has not. As simple as that!