@ kubyx
Differences between a) Pegasos, and b) A1:
a) Pegasos is a small micro-ATX motherboard. This means more room for
your creativity when it comes to building a system.
b) The A1 is of the bigger ATX form factor.
a/b) The Pegasos has everything that the A1 have, PLUS an optical
connector for digital audio, and Firewire. The A1 has four PCI
slots (or rather 3+1), but the way that the Articia implements AGP
means that if you use a normal PCI card in this fourth slot, then the
AGP card will deccelerate to 1x speed. The Pegasos did never
include this "fourth" PCI slot (which propably helped reducing the
size of the motherboard).
a/b) The Pegasos is more reasonable priced than the A1.
a) The Pegasos I is no longer manufactured, but there are some in
stock at dealers. If you decide to buy one today, there is a good
chance that you can start playing with it in a day or two (depending
how far you live from the dealer), and in an *Amiga envireonment*, not
only Linux.
b) Eyetech is not exactly flooding the market with A1 motherboards.
A lot of people who ordered their board a year or more ago has still
not recieved it. There are many reasons for this (but *nothing*
Articia related); lack of CPUs, lack of CPU coolers, extensive
testing, etc.
a) On the Pegasos you run MorphOS (an Amiga-like OS) and Linux today.
Many more OSes in the future, but propably *not* OS4 unless Hyperion
or some third party get a license from Amiga Inc.
b) On the A1 you run Linux today. OS4 will be ported to it some time
in the future, but it is going to be released for classic Amigas with
PPC cards first (sometime during the fall?). A completely unqualified
*guess* is that OS4 for the A1 wont be released to end-users on this
side of new years eve.
a) The Pegasos G4 cards (not available until next month) comes with a
7447 CPU of either 1.0GHz, 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz (which one is not
publically known yet). It has been said that there will be no CPU fan
(=equally silent as the G3 version :-)!).
b) The A1 G4 comes with a 7451 CPU @ 800MHz. Uses CPU fan. One of the
reasons for the delays of the A1 has been that Eyetech needed to find
an even stronger cooling solution for their choice of G4.
a) The upcoming Pegasos II (to which Pegasos I users can upgrade) uses
the Marvell Discovery II NorthBridge.
b) The A1 uses the Articia S NorthBridge.
Thats the main differences that pops up in my mind. But perhaps you
should also look at the companies behind the two solutions to
determine which one of them that has a greater chance of success. It
takes more than just hardware and software to make it. Which one has
a future, and why? This is off topic in this thread, but I have
written a lot on this issue here on amiga.org and on ann.lu. Search
back in time a bit!
