From: | Alan Buxey |
Date: | 13 Jun 2001 at 09:39:26 |
Subject: | Re: Predicting the rain shower!! |
hi,
> see the thing is, theres a bit of a battle going between 5 powers to
> be
not really.
> 1.Eyetech(amigaone)
a clean, brand new system which CAN use the A1200 motherboard but does
not rely on it in the future. Fast BUS speeds, replaceable core logic
(currently)
> 2.DCE(DCE microserver,G-rex1200+4000)
the GRex is a PCI busboard which NEEDS the PPC accelerator. therefore you
are tied very much down to the older hardware.
> 3.Elbox (mediator 1200+4000+sharkPPC)
Mediator is a PCI Bridge board...not ATX factor. has the A4000 version
arrived yet? SharkPPC is still yet to be seen. proprietary PPC expansion
cards can lever HIGH upgrade costs in the future)
Its a nice card...pity its 2001, the Mediator would have been a KILLER if
it arrived in 1997 (when it easily could have if anyone bothered to make
PCI busboards for the A1200!)
> 4.B-Plan (pegosis)
have yet to see it...they are really aiming to be a very good machine for
LinuxPPC (oh, that can run MorphOS). Whether the next Amiga OS runs on it
is another matter....when it comes to sale figures it wont matter if it
does or not...as 99% of sales would be for LinuxPPC anyway
(EVERYONE is asking for a decent machine to run LinuxPPC on)
> 5.Matay (promethesus)
for the zorro machines (a3k/4k) a completely different market...really as
a current Amiga upgrade. dont know if it would be able to run Amiga 4.x
etc - even if it could it'll be tied to old hardware
> i would like to buy the amigaone, BUT if the mediator or G-rex gives
> me the neccarssy power i.e G3/G4 dram etc then i might just upgrade
> them instead.
you can stick the fastest G4 money can buy into it, but you'll be held
back to the slower speed of the BUS etc. IO on the Mediator is still
through the Amiga BUS and this kills performance. For the latest CPUs you
need a very good base platform to run them on...otherwise we will just
throw ourselves into the waters that PC owners used to swim in (fast CPUs
in a crap design - only recently with ATA100, PC-133 etc have PCs finally
got decent bandwidth to the CPU)
alan
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