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From:Vidar Langberget
Date:7 Jun 2001 at 14:20:40
Subject:Re: cost of amigaone ?

From: "Clyde Hannan" <hannan@intekom.co.za>
> > > Have you personally compared the two in the same PC under the same
exact
> > > conditions?
> > >
> >
> > You're not doing anyone a favour by hyping the G450/G400. People will
only
> > be disappointed. It is old and slow in 3D.
>
> I think that what Gary was saying - and I'm quite sure he said it very
clearly
> in another mail, was that the G400/G450 is old technology which is
irrelevant to
> what they are busy working on. He never ever hyped the G400/450 - he only
might
> have used them as examples of Matrox's pedigree of manufacturing and
design.
>

The G550 is rumoured to be only a small improvement over the G450, with some
basic DirectX 8 features and a sad 64-bit DDR bus.

> Amiga are basing their "strategic partnership" with Matrox on their new
chips
> and designs that have not come out yet - and therefore, have not been seen
by
> anyone except under NDA's.

But it isn't very promising that Matrox consistently have released products
late(if at all) and the fact that Matrox representatives have said in
several interviews that they concentrate on developing chips for business
machines.

> Those are the Matrox products to be concerned with, so it's pointless
comparing
> the G400 series with the Geforce series in this case.

Relying on one supplier is not a good decision IMO. Just look at what
happened in the Mac market. After Apple opened up for NVIDIA, ATI suddenly
feeled compelled to release the Radeon for the Mac. Now they have the
GeForce3.

You can't close your eyer for competitive products just because Amiga have
signed an agreement with Matrox. The fact is that Matrox isn't providing a
competitive solution for people interested in playing 3D games ATM. And
there are signs that say they won't do so for a while either. That worries
me.

Vidar
www.templeoftech.com

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