Relative merits of AmigaOne compared to Pegasos?

[Seehund]

MikeB wrote:
@ Seehund

If you examine his question again, you'll see that he's asking about "real" choices

So, have you seen the Pegasos2 run anything yet? Like for instance Debian or MorphOS.

Good point, and I agree with those that have said it's basically Yet Another Paper Launch until people hear a thump in their mailboxes.

How exactly is this board at this stage a more real solution than the AmigaOne-Lite

Because, in contrast to the MicroA1 board, it's for sale, it's specs are known and final, and it's for sale at a known final price. BTW, am I imagining things when I recall seeing someone from Genesi saying it's in production?
If any of this should change for the worse, affecting people who already have ordered it, then I'll join you in a unison BOO GENESI!

which will be demonstrated tomorrow running Linux

If I understood Alan R's and Ole-Egil's constant reminders correctly, the board that one of these days will be sold as a MicroA1 is still in prototyping, with yet unknown final specs, as well as undisclosed designers (let me guess... Hi Bill! ) and manufacturers. In that case, this prototype is what will be demonstrated in Austria.

[Paul_Gadd]

@mingle

Judge by the companies.

On one hand you have Genesi what have released everything they say they would and have done good for this community without stealing from the users

On the other hand you have Amiga Inc who have done nothing but lie, cheat, break the law, in court all the time and have even gone to the extremes of stealing from Amiga users with illegal schemes and such.

4 choices,

Support the good guys
Support crooks
Support Both
Buy neither.

[downix]

@Paul_Gadd

YOU FORGOT THE PANCAKES!

[takemehomegrandma]

Pancakes are good! Nothing bad with pancakes! :-)

[jahc]

I think the best reason for going with either OS 4.0 or MorphOS would be how well it runs OS 3.x software. From what I've gathered, MorphOS does it quite well. It will be a tough act for OS 4.0 to follow, but we'll see how well it preforms when its finished.

My advice to a buyer would be to get whats available now.. but having said that, I would prefer to go with the official direction. So I've purchased an AmigaOneXEG3, which I should recieve by the end of next week.

But thats my honest opinion.

[Amiga1200PPC]

Another small aspect:
AmigaOS4 will only support M68K and native programs, not even their
own WarpUP.
MorphOS does already run m68k, PowerUP, WarpUP and native
software. The Pegasos/MorphOS is already much better than my
A1200 BPPC ever was.

[IonDeluxe]

@-D-

You know exactly what was meant, stop confusing the issue.

The AmigaOne is the Official Amiga solution while the Pegasos is a competator to that solution.

There, happy now?

As for the AMigaOne being a modified teron...who cares? what real difference does it make?

Many companies use boards and other components designed and manufactured by others, does this then make that particular system less thier product?
No.
This is a common practise throughout many industries.

Does the fact that the pegasos uses radeon graphics cards, IMB or motorola cpus, hyundai ram, western digitaL hard drives, LG monitors, genius mice, and creative soundcards(for example) make it any less a pegasos system?

What makes a "brand" is little more than  the company that sticks the label on the machine.

[iamaboringperson]

(Havn't read through the entire thread, so don't flame me if this has been brought up before)
@mingle

What you have to remember is that many people bought these A1 boards, payed for a $50 discount voucher, and havn't recieved AOS4.0, or the T-Shirts that they were promised.
AOS4.0 has been promised for years, and it hasn't come.
Whereas MorphOS already has many users. MorphOS is already available.

The Pegasos II is soon available, and in larger numbers!
I have a Pegasos, and am planning on getting another(peg II this time). :-)

[utri007]

-tshirts so what? I dont know any reasons to compare pegasos to amiga.

I like to compare Pegasos to PC it's same way amiga compaptiable, I can get to my PC amiga feeling wiht skins and UEA.

Pegasos has nothing to do with real amiga.

[iamaboringperson]

Pegasos has nothing to do with real amiga.

Pegasos has everything to do with the real Amiga. It is the new Amiga!

[sir_inferno]

not really helpful twoards the aim of the topic, but still very related. We talk about people like us, wanting either v. compatible amiga stuff, or basically new amiga stuff, but does any1 else actually use them apart from us who just remember the pro's of the amiga, and now carrying it on? cause it seems like some of the stuff out there is something that some1's making in their backyard and no1 really looks on the internet and buys them, just if you like amiga you buy them...

moderator's feel free to move this post   :-D  otherwise a couple of people answer very quickly as to not hijack the thread  :-)

[bbrv]

The Pegasos II is a great product.  We think as more people get their hands on them this discussion will become one of branding and nothing more.  

Nevertheless, we are working on that too...;-)

R&B