Amiga User Turns to PegasosII

[takemehomegrandma]

@ kd7ota

I have a couple of PC's myself. I need a laptop for my work (PC), I have a 2800+ barton Abit/NForce2 system for media creation etc (and games ;-)), and two low-end MiniITX Via Epia motherboards.

No matter how hard I try, I can only look at those boxes as grey "work horses" (is that a real term in English? ;-)). There is no fun in using them, except from one occasional game or so (but then the credits goes to the game itself, and not to the box). They are noisy, slow, bulky and bloated (I use Windows XP and 2k on them). They are useful, but I want more, I want fun in computing! ;-) Only Amiga (and now Pegasos/MorphOS) has been able to offer me that.

I understand that you want to "use it before you buy it", it's difficult to buy something unseen, based only on peoples recommendations. It's tempting to say that you could always buy a cheap second hand Pegasos1, but I wouldn't recommend that. The Pegasos II is much better, and you wouldn't regret buying one of those from the start (I have owned two Peg1's and two Peg2's myself). Perhaps you could go to a show, a local club or something, and try it out?

Good luck! :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Cymric

I agree that it's more of a nostalgic posting than a review of a product. But I think that it's interesting reading nevertheless. I bet that we are many who recognizes our own past (and current) situation just like that's described in this article.

(BTW, Linux is not the answer to everything, nor is Windows. ;-))

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@ Wayne

I agree, the general *desktop systems* (which excludes a lot of OS's that has somewhat different purposes) should not require their users to be computer experts. And I agree that Windows XP pro is great in that kind of way. And one should remember that in the desktop OS sector, the Windows way is the standard way.

I once threw out some questions for discussion about Amiga(ish) OS's as general desktop OS's. What is required? That is a good question!

In this thread on ann.lu I tried to discuss this a while ago.

BTW, "What is the Pegasos Layer" (comment 73)? Could some "layer" make those exotic OS's more common and suitable for mainstream uses? Possibly, that depends on what it is! :-P ;-)

And a good question that is - What should such a "layer" contain? What is it?

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(BTW, if you are reading that ann thread, have a look at post 16 too ...)

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@ choochy

The hardware design and components of the Pegasos II is *EXCELLENT*! There is no other word that can describe it! The only thing one could strike down upon in the past, was the firmware. I have personally seen three different firmware versions since last Christmas. That is fast progress IMHO ;-)! Today the firmware in Peg2 is very good, especially if you don't use Seagate HDD's (like I do ;-)). Genesi has in several posts written about their ambitions regarding the firmware and the open desktop workstation. So I don't see any reason to believe that the firmware development will slow down in the future, rather the opposite. I believe that lots of exciting features will come to the Peg2 firmware in a not so distant future ... :-D