Relative merits of AmigaOne compared to Pegasos?

[Seehund]

This could have been a short and sweet thread, with one link to the Teron PX specs and Eyetech's available configurations, plus one link to Genesi's Peg II blurb.

But oh, no.

Anyway, here's a table comparing the boards. I'm sure  people will post corrections if necessary.




EDIT: For bandwidth conservation, I removed the inline pic and linked to it instead. I've submitted it to the amiga.org gallery too, so when/if it's accepted it might be a good idea to link to it there instead.

EDIT 2: Now that the pic will stress the amiga.org server instead of "my own", I put the inline pic back.

Thanks Seehund.  That puts it into perspective nicely.  

[amigamad]

Im an a1 owner but at the moment and since building and instaling debian i have not used it ,this is because i am waiting for os4.Which is why i would say only get an amigaone now if you dont mind using linux and waiting for os4 to be completed. As for the pegasos 2 it is now available and you have a 1 gig machine with a very nice amiga like operating software that has a lot of aplications ported to it already and is being updated all the time ,with the pegasos you can use it now.  It is cheaper than the a1 and it is a very small form factor board so you can use small cases than the amigaone.


I hope to buy a pegasos 2 myself when i have the cash for it.. :-)

[GadgetMaster]

OT

@Wayne

RE: Your sig.  :-D

So does that mean we are all betatesters. :-o

It could apply to all languages equally. I think English is changing fastest though IMHO.

[Tomas]

If you want os4, then aone is the only choice... If you can settle with linux and morphos, then pegasos might be a better choice, since it is cheaper at the moment.

Personally i want AmigaOne because of os4... i have hopes that the AoneLite will be cheaper.

[Tomas]

I'm not going to touch this with a 2billion foot barge pole... but I will say, if you have a PC then have a look at AROS...

well... aros is not a choice atm, as it has no tcp/ip stack and virtually no software :\
It seems very responisve and such, but cannot be used much when it lacks software to run on it

But in the future maybe  :-)

@Gadget

Glad you liked it.  I had this quote come to mind the other day when someone was arguing with me over MorphOS being a "beta".  Someone pointed out that all operating systems are "betas" because they're always under development.

Then I suddenly realized that on these forums, the English language was very much in Beta because there were apparently so many people having trouble with it. :-)

Is there somewhere that I could apply to be 100% credited with a quote?  A "quotemark" per se?  :-)

Wayne

[Tomas]

pegasos only has agp 1x, while aone has 2x? or is that a typing error?

[downix]

@Wayne

And thy art now just realizing this?  Why, thee must jest.  Nay, the Kings English is immutable and eternal.

[IonDeluxe]

Also, morphos being "Amiga Like" is up to your personal point of view.I have seen some comments that have disagreed with this analogy.
Morphos is also not what I would consider a "commercial ready" OS, it is more in a beta stage, yet that is better to some points of view than no OS available at all to this point in time.
Contrary to what has been stated before, this site seems more wiegted towards the pegasos than the AmigaOne, if this is due to pegaos promotors being more vocal on not is really a non issue, whilst Amigaworld.net seems more wieghted towards AmigaOne and the "official" solution.
You are simply nt going to get away from the inherent polictics either way so the only unbiased option is to visit both sites to get a more balanced perspective.

To sum up my personal opinion is that the hardware is of very similar specifacations so the real considerations are cost, with pegasos being the cheaper, and the OS with pegasos having Morphos available, but not entirely complete, and the AmigaOne the only system at this time that will have OS4 available.

Unless you need a system in the very near future my advice is to simply wait until both options have the operating system available and have matured a bit more. At this stage everything is purely speculation as to which system will be "better" in the long run.

[amigamad]

pegasos only has agp 1x, while aone has 2x? or is that a typing error?

No it is not but to be honest you wont notice the difrence . :-)

[Tomas]

No it is not but to be honest you wont notice the difrence .

not until there is a decent 3d driver i guess....
But i do notice the difference between 2x and 4x on a pc atleast... not very much, but difference is there

@Tomas,

On ANY PowerPC right now, AmigaOne or Pegasos II, you will never notice any difference between 1x and 2x because the bus itself and the CPU are not fast enough (yet) to saturate the video bus.  Bill Buck has explained this repeatedly (and elegantly) on other sites like ANN.lu

(I can never find links on ANN later when I need them).

I am positive that later when the northbridge chips for both motherboards advance and mature, 8x, 24x or whatever is out there will be supported.   This is a natural progression.

Again, you can't compare x86 world to the PPC market which is infinitely smaller.

[vortexau]

Tomas wrote:
pegasos only has agp 1x, while aone has 2x? or is that a typing error?

No -not a typing error!  There has already been plenty of discussion as to what Gfx Cards to buy! The trouble is that BOTH systems are behind the technology-curve here!

One correction that I could make to that comparison chart that Seehund so kindly provided, is the G4 cpu provided with the A1XEG4 can be clocked at 800 or 933Mhz and retain dealer warrenty.

But, whatever (Peg or A1) system choosen- We should ALL rejoice!  The equipment-drought that resulted from Commodore's demise has been alleviated by TWO contenders!

Really, its like back in 1991; when you could choose an A600, or an A500+ . . . . . . . you bought which one you preferred!

[GadgetMaster]

Wayne wrote:
Is there somewhere that I could apply to be 100% credited with a quote?  A "quotemark" per se?  :-)

Wayne

Well I have submitted it to http://www.quoteworld.org/ and credited it to yourself.

Now let's just wait and see if they publish it  :-D

[EDIT]
If not you could always do what the guy at the following site has done:  http://www.davevance.com/quotes.cfm :-P

[vortexau]

GadgetMaster wrote:

Wayne wrote:
Is there somewhere that I could apply to be 100% credited with a quote?  A "quotemark" per se?  :-)

Wayne

Well I have submitted it to http://www.quoteworld.org/ and credited to yourself.

Now lets just wait and see if they publish it  :-D

Here's a NEW one, spur of the moment:
"The BETAS go on; la-de-la-de-da!" (with compliments to Sonny & Cher!) :-D