Interview with A-Eon's Trevor Dickinson

[SysAdmin]

The magazine Obligement has published an interview with Trevor Dickinson, Director of A-EON Technology.

Trevor  speaks about the A-EON company, the assessment of the whole  AmigaOne X1000 adventure and its new projects like Cyrus, AmigaOS 4  netbook, Libre Office and others....

Link : http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwdickinson2_en.php

[Iggy]

Thanks, maybe if Trevor offers one of the X2000 boards (or better two) to the MorphOS team they will consider it.
After all, they don't seem adverse to porting to the SAM460.

We'd probably get stuck with limited video card support though (R500 maybe).

Bounty to buy a beta board for a MorphOS developer?

[wawrzon]

thanks for honestly outlining the situation, trevor.

[jj]

So its more or loess offical, there will be no amiga os4.1 notebook

[Iggy]

thanks for honestly outlining the situation, trevor.

Yes, this new board has been anticipated for awhile (and the earlier revision has already been seen by a few before).

[OlafS3]

thanks for honestly outlining the situation, trevor.

I am still surprised that there is still enough need for two high-prize machines after the X1000 is already sold to interested people. But he can do with his money what he wants to do.

[Iggy]

I am still surprised that there is still enough need for two high-prize machines after the X1000 is already sold to interested people. But he can do with his money what he wants to do.

Probably only one board offered with different processors.
I'd buy one.

[NovaCoder]

I am still surprised that there is still enough need for two high-prize machines after the X1000 is already sold to interested people. But he can do with his money what he wants to do.

Yep that's what I was thinking, can't be that many OS4 users still in the market for a new high-end machine (eg the ones who haven't already brought an X1000).

Anyway, nice clear and honest interview.

[spirantho]

I am still surprised that there is still enough need for two high-prize machines after the X1000 is already sold to interested people. But he can do with his money what he wants to do.

I think there's a fair few people who don't have the money now but will have after saving up for a year or two - so it's not unreasonable.
Then you factor in the X1000 owners who want to upgrade to the latest model - remember the X1000 will always be worth a pretty penny, so upgrade costs wouldn't be as bad as you might imagine.

I think it's good that we will have a fairly regular supply of top-end, middle and low-end Amiga machines - can't go far wrong with that!

[_ThEcRoW]

The problem is that only high priced hardware is produced. And don't suggest sam as entry level because it isn't.

[vox]

The problem is that only high priced hardware is produced. And don't suggest sam as entry level because it isn't.

That is what A-EON decided to do. And what is an entry level by price performance if it isn`t SAM 440 knowing OS alone is about 100 euros?

[Iggy]

Lower priced variants of the processors Trevor intends to use will be available in about one year.
These two, the T1040 and T1042 are slower, but use the same e5500 core.

A board based on these might come in at Acube levels while outperforming the SAMs.

[OlafS3]

Trevor does not want to make competition to Acube (even if he could). He will make it more expensive to protect Acubes hardware sales (he mentioned something like that)

[nicholas]

Thanks, maybe if Trevor offers one of the X2000 boards (or better two) to the MorphOS team they will consider it.
After all, they don't seem adverse to porting to the SAM460.

We'd probably get stuck with limited video card support though (R500 maybe).

Bounty to buy a beta board for a MorphOS developer?

Why should the MOS-Team port their OS to his hardware for free?

Just saying!

[nicholas]

Trevor does not want to make competition to Acube (even if he could). He will make it more expensive to protect Acubes hardware sales (he mentioned something like that)

Then he isn't a very good businessman if that's his attitude.