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

[Senex]

(But for the fanatics that most likely will be pure good news anyway...)

Not that I'd call myself a fanatic, but although I'm having rather mixed feelings about this, I think we do anyway have to give Genesi credit to be fair enough to tell this everyone in advance - instead of continueing to produce and sell Pegasos-Ones until the Pegasos-II is on sale.

[Senex]

It dont make sence not to sell Peg untill Peg 2 is out.

Well, my personal *speculation* is aimed at MAI. For the very last 400 "old" Articias Genesi do have their April-1. But this chip, as far as I know, is difficult to mount on the boards. And if maybe now they have again found a bug also in the new Articia-design or if the old bugs are only fixed unsatisfyingly in it (maybe just as a kind of integrated April-solution instead of a complete and therefore maybe more expensive redesign of the Articia to really remove the error), then of course it would mak more sense for Genesi to completely switch to a different northbridge. Because an unsatisfyingly fixed Articia-redesign would give them less performance, I'd say. And if they'd even still need a (even new to design) April(2 or 3)-chip for future boards, it would make even more sense, since this difficult to mount solution obviously wouldn't qualify for mass-production. And last but not least MAI's supply shortfalls would be a supporting reason to change the northbridge completely.

[Senex]

And I think it's a good move from Genesi and their partners to not stay where they currently are but instead make a step into the future with advanced hardware specs.

Yes, especially given the recent fears of some people, Genesi could become STB-only. This new, more modern Pegasos-II-board obviously is a clear commitment to stay in the desktop-market as well.

[Senex]

There are already G4XEs out there.

Undoubtedly, but more and more it appears from the various websites
and MLs that the Articia-S is still too buggy to let the G4 perform
optimally. Which makes Genesi's decision very plausible. If they had
to design, produce and mount a new April-2/3 for the newer Articia's
also, it's better to change for a new, bug-free chip.

As soon as someone does have an Amiga-One-G4, could (s)he please post
some real-life values of its performance? At ANN.lu for example
someone claims the L2-cache wouldn't work with the G4 and the current
Articia on the AmigaOne, only with the G3.

[Senex]

Meanwhile there's an update at href="http://www.morphos-news.de/comments.php?lg=en&cpp=1&nid=222&page=32>MorphOS-News.de, confirming the replacement of the northbridge for the new board and that all Pegasos-I-owners can exchange their boards to a Peg-II-board for only 200 Euro, i.e. the price originally planned for the G4-CPU-card upgrade.

[Senex]

the question as to why Eyetech can get these chips and Genesi cannot...

Well, regarding Genesi's latest statement it's not a matter of not getting them, but of not wanting them because of further bugs...