Efika Now Available at www.amigakit.com

[AJCopland]

amigakit wrote:
This board is supplied with AGP right angled adapter.  It states 'optional' in the product text to refer to the fact that you can either use it or have the PCI slot free.

The actual motherboard is tiny - difficult to conceptualise until it is in your hand- certainly a feat of engineering.

Ah good because i have spare nVidia and ATi AGP gfx cards lying around :-D

I think i might have a suitable case for it and all the other gubbins (HDD etc).

Does it come with the power supply/adapter?

Andy

[Piru]

Does it come with the power supply/adapter?

No. It has a regular ATX power connector. PicoPSU is cool, although a bit pricey solution.

[Astral]

Please excuse my ignorance - but where/how do you connect a keyboard to this thing?

[Astral]

Please excuse my ignorance - but where/how do you connect a keyboard to this thing?

[Piru]

where/how do you connect a keyboard to this thing?

USB

[philipj]

mbrantley wrote:
It states that other memory configurations are available. If I wanted the board with 512MB, would it come with that amount soldered on -- and at what cost? I'm assuming you can't add memory later, so you need to get what you're going to get with this board.

I was also hoping that this may be answered because it is pretty much the difference between me buying one and not.

I was under the impression the 128mb wasn't upgradable, if it is would it be done by an unorthodox method and will it cost a lot extra?

[AJCopland]

Piru wrote:
No. It has a regular ATX power connector. PicoPSU is cool, although a bit pricey solution.

Thanks Piru that all looks pretty cool, otherwise i've got a spare 550watt one lying around, although... that might be a little excessive :-D

[Dr_Righteous]

Piru wrote:
I guess you need to ask Freescale. My guess is that no 604 core could be get to run at 1W. Also, something higher spec would run hotter (possibly requiring heatsink + fan) and be more expensive. Finally, I think 603 was the "base design" which many other processor lines forked from, while 604 was more of a dead end.

Yeah, given it's meant as an embeded device, I can see how you'd want it to run without additional cooling. Guess people don't want DVRs or whatever with cooling fans  :lol:

[ferrellsl]

Any news on what type of Amiga license the EFIKA will have?  BBRV mentioned in a recent post that they have a license with Amiga Inc. for the EFIK but he didn't allude to the type.... AmigaDE, AmigaOS4...He also didn't give any time line on when this OS would be ported and running.

[AJCopland]

Hi AmigaKit,

I went through the add to basket process but didnt see anyway of choosing the "optional" memory amounts.

So how do I go about getting the 512mb version?

Andy

[Framiga]

it isn't AmigaKit fault, not answer at this question.

AFAIK if you want more RAM. you have to order a batch (at least).

why?...because 128 MB are enough (at least on MZ someone says so)

[CannonFodder]

Framiga wrote:
it isn't AmigaKit fault, not answer at this question.

AFAIK if you want more RAM. you have to order a batch (at least).

why?...because 128 MB are enough (at least on MZ someone says so)

The way I see it, is that the EFIKA is *not* a desktop computer, and was never designed to be so.

You may choose to use it as such, but don't complain when it doesn't do what desktop computers do (eg Let you add more RAM to it).

[AJCopland]

Ah i see so it's not actually an option at the moment but it could have been at manufacture time.

@CannonFodder

You may choose to use it as such, but don't complain when it doesn't do what desktop computers do (eg Let you add more RAM to it).

I'm not interested in using it as a desktop machine but if a version was available with more ram then i'd have gone for that. For the small price it'd have cost it seems a bit of a shame not to have but a SO-DIMM slot on there or just gone with higher density ram chips. As it is the gfx cards i have lying around will have the same onboard ram as the main system.

Still it should make for a nice cheap low-power machine :-D

Andy

[Piru]

SO-DIMM slot

There's no room for SO-DIMM slot (it requires enough clearance, which just isn't available).

[mikrucio]

Looks like genesi are climbing the ladder. nice work to em.
I hope morphos goes well in efika.

although i really cant see any point to ditch my imac. Im in love with it. Core duo rox.

[Piru]

I'm not ditching my pc, peg1 and peg2 for EFIKA either. That'd be quite silly. EFIKA doesn't replace desktop or laptop system. However, I bet I can find some use for <10 W computer...