At GFX-BASE a short review by Stefan Blixth of the Pegasos (BetaTester-II) and MorphOS has been released. He also provided GFX-BASE with some exclusive photos taken by Anders Ericsson at the AmiGBG-show that was held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Review of the Pegasos System at GFX-BASE
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After reading the review I have been kind of hungry for one of those. But why does it only have a weak G3 600Mhz CPU? It’s like buying an 2 years old computer.
mmm, because it’s not too expensive, only needs a passive heatsync so it’s quiet and it forces developpers to optimize and rethink their code 🙂 which is good 🙂
Remember when BeOS went to dual pentiums? performance dropped
rapidly…
But their are plans for faster cpucards for the Pegasos II
You could buy one now, and then upgrade to the new G4 version said to be out come autumn at the rather nice sum of 200 EUR. It will also have three gigabit ethernet ports, for whatever reason.
Besides, what are you going to do in order to saturate 600 MHz? Run Linux?
Nice Review!
Wow, is right. Nice review. Here is yet another:
http://www.aminet.net/docs/rview/PegasosReview.txt
Thank you very much Stefan and Kelly.
Best regards,
Raquel and Bill
Genesi
We did notice that the pictures show the Pegasos with April. The Betatester does not have the April patch.
R&B
I want one of these. Too expensive (nearly 400 quid withoit VAT here in UK). Its a shame the artica has such problems with memory. Its very restrictive (how many 512mb dims that are not hyperpage?) on its memory selection.
i’ve also heard tell the april fix does not truly fix the problem, just make it less obvious.
still, i want one!.. its also a big shame amiga wont get aos4 to run on the pegasos boards.. considering how near identicle to the A1 boards (same reference design).
anyway, thats old grouchy news.
whats with the dual g4?? i assume its a card with a g4 on each side?? what kind of powersupply is rquired to run a dual g4 on a pegasos board??
i’m also not convinced of two cpu running out of the same single socket.. bus contention.. fun.. still what a ‘cool/wow’ factor!
Hi Saotome, we sold these for $499 to the public and $299 to Phoenix Developers (http://www.phinixi.com/). Where did you get that price?!
G4 configuration is/connection are exactly the same. Power differences are negligible.
Cheers!
R&B
i should have said 400 quid WITH vat. from pegasos-uk.com
thats 642.520 USD on current exchange rates.
living in the uk, VAT is a wonderful tax..
nothing is cheap in the uk.
Hi there BBRV
I wrote this review a long time ago and the board was exhanged at the AmiGBG-show in march this year.
Now it’s even more fun to use 😉
Kind regards
Stefan ‘Develin’ Blixth, OnyxSoft
Stefan, that was a great presentation AND review.
😀
We are happy; you are happy!
Perfect!
Sounds corny, but it works for us!
R&B
> still, i want one!.. its also a big shame amiga wont get aos4 to run on the pegasos boards..
Have you told Amiga, Inc. what you think?
http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk
http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos