Eyetech updates AmigaOne prices

[Orgin]

Alan Redhouse writes: Our new server is now operational and, as promised, we've updated/added A1 components to the A1 section of the website. Note that the A1XE-G3 now has a 750FX cpu running at 800MHZ, making it around 60-70% faster than the A1G3-SE.

Eyetech price list

Source: AmigaOne mailing list

[L8-X]

Woohoo!

Just ordered myself an A1/G4 with 512mb ram & fan.

 :-D  :-D  :-D

[Paul_Gadd]

512MB Registered SDRAM for AmigaOne £79.95

Or go to bowlers and pick up one for £52.88 (branded, registered)

[DamienMcKenna]

I thought that AmigaOS was a lean, mean OS that didn't need the vast amounts of RAM needed by other, inferior products?  If that's still the case, why are they selling it with 512 meg of RAM when it should be literally flying with 64?

Also, why are CPU fans being advertised?  If they are required then they should be included, otherwise don't confuse people into buying one if they're not needed.

Lastly, no shipment dates were included, so when will they be available?

Damien

[JurassicCamper]

@Paul

Is that kingston ?

Its only 4p cheaper on ebuyer.com and that usually beats show prices. I hope for your saving of £25ish leaves you happy running  your A1 or Pegasos at 100Mhz FSB.

@ Damien

25 G4 boards with the new layout and artica-s are going to developers this week for a week of intensive testing. They have already passed testing in Mai's labs.
Following that they go into full production.
Not long now... couple of weeks.

[System]

The OS might fly with little ram, but some apps and games will require loads of memory. Also, the Classic Amiga ran so exellent with little memory because it used few colors in low resolution.. For example in a paint program, a 640*480 image with 256 colors takes 300Kb while a 1024*768 32bit image takes 3Mb. For publishing you'd probably want even higher resolutions, and imagine this image with multiple layers!
Besides, SDRAM is cheap now

btw, the prices on eyetech's page, are they in EUR or GBP?

[Stimpzilla]

btw, the prices on eyetech's page, are they in EUR or GBP?

It'll be GBP.

Stimpzilla
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[Paul_Gadd]

Is that kingston ?

No, made by Samsung and runs at pc133 (backwards compatable), my mate uses the ram in his A1G3-SE and not had any problems, time will tell when OS4 comes out,

So i might aswell mention it on here so people can get ram cheaper than paying a premuim price.

[asian1]

I plan to buy dual G4 1 GHz / faster.
Any hardware compatibility list for AmigaOS and Linux?
What is the price of the high end configuration?
Thx.

[amigamad]

ram is the one thing i need for my a1 now. Looks like it wont be much longer now before we recieve the g4 boards .as for the cpu fan i think this should be included, as its only a small 5 volt fan im not going to pay £9.99 for it ill fit a bigger fan of my own.

[redrumloa]

DamienMcKenna
Merely Curious
Joined: 2003/1/16
Posts: 4
From: Florida, USA

Cool another A-Org user from FL! Getting a few of them now:-) What part of FL?

[Helgis75]

Just saw the updates at Eyetechs' AmigaOne-pricing list, and yes, the A1G3XE has got a speed-increase to 800Mhz!!! Pretty stuffs! If i am right, then we're talking about a 200Mhz speed gap between all the three models...! So the spesifications should be:

AmigaOne G3-SE: 600Mhz (soldered)
AmigaOne G3-XE: 800Mhz (upgradable)
AmigaOne G4-XE: 1.2Ghz!!! (upgradable)

I think these will be the spesifications of the models being updated, and being part of the delay :-)

I have ordered the top-of-the-line-system! I have been waiting for this revenge over the Amiga-hatred PC-fanaticans...Now it's time to kick some butts!!!

[Troels_E]

Which is fastest ..........

The 800mhz G3 or the 800mhz G4.

Not taking Altivec into consideration.

??anyone???

[Helgis75]

Troels_E asked about the speed difference to the 800Mhz A1G3XE and the 800Mhz A1G4XE. Very interestint question...

Because the A1G3XE has a 512KB L2-cache as opposed to the G4s' 256KB cache, i believe the A1G3XE may be faster than the A1G4XE at the same speed...Very surprising stuffs..!

[takemehomegrandma]

I thought that AmigaOS was a lean, mean OS that didn't need the vast amounts of RAM needed by other, inferior products? If that's still the case, why are they selling it with 512 meg of RAM when it should be literally flying with 64?

I have 512MB in my Pegasos. I had been away from Amiga for a while and was kind of used to the PC situation when I ordered it, and I must say it is a real overkill with that much memory in an Amiga envireonment. But at least you will have a huge RAM: drive!  :-D

Why they are selling it? I think it has something to do with availability really. I don't think there are any 64MB or 128MB modules available that works with the Articia. Perhaps a few 256MB's, but I believe it is much easier to get ahold of the 512MB's.