Check This Out! (Hoax Amiga vapourware)

[Hammer]

dusanjocic wrote:
I came out the spec. from the company named "Orion" who will make an AmigaOne with this. It will be out at the market in 2004 or 2005.

 - PPC Processor (Single, Dual or Quad; G4, 970 or 980)
- Rambus Redwood I/O technology support
- Rambus XDR DRAM memory support (up to 16 GB)
- Rambus RaSer IP Cell for PCI Express
- Single, Dual or Quad indenpendente FSB (from 400 MHz to 6,4 GHz)
- Kickstart In 4 MB or 16 MB MRAM
- Custom Made Matrox graphic card (Pixel and Vertex Shaders 3.0 and Direct X 9.1)
- Second Generation Of Custom Chips
- RLDRAM II memory support for Custom Chips ( up to 576 MB)
- USB 2.0 (6 ports) support
- FireWire 800 (4 ports) support
- Wireless Technology - WiFi 802.11n (320 MB/s) support
- SerialATA II (3 GB/s) support
- High Definition DVD-ROM (HD-DVD) support
- Blue Ray Disc support
- 56 K V.92 Modem support
- PCI Express slots support (up to 4)
- Zorro 5 slots support (up to 3)
- RAID support for Dual And Quad models (2+4 independent connectors)
- x86-64 processor (AmigaOne expansion card add-on)
- Coldfire processor (AmigaOne expansion card add-on)
- HDD support from 80 GB to ... (with 10.000 rpm and 8 MB cache)
- Creative Labs 3 support
- Wireless USB support

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It’s better to have a commoditized X86 based motherboard (e.g. AMD K8 motherboard) with PowerPC G3/G4-on-a-PCI/PCI-X card solution for cost reasons...

[mikeymike]

Nah, my face isn't ready for public consumption.

Pretend you look like Johnny Depp, that's what I've heard some people do.

[olegil]

@mikeymike:

ROFL

Damn. I think I blew a bloodvessel in my brain. Hurts like hell. Don't DO that to people, man.

[iamaboringperson]

"WOW!! did somebody mention a new Amiga with new custom chips?? and a new 500GHz CPU, with other 64-bit CPU's built in, and  a new 500 terra bit floppy? this should surely be printed in an amiga magazine!!!!"

[downix]

@CodeSmith

There are other advantages as well.  1)  no cost-overhead added from the chip fab company.  2) total control over the fabs and 3) the ability to custom-engineer *around* the fabs.  These three things combined to make the VIC-series and the Amiga-series of Commodore machines as great as they were.