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| Posted on 04-Sep-2002 06:51 GMT by JoeBlow | 44 comments
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www.mai.com/news&events/PressRelease090302.html
Production version Teron systems using the Teron CX design will soon be available for purchasing from Mai Logic's strategic partners in the targeted price range of around $500.00 each.
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| Production Teron CX systems soon for US$500 : Comment 34 of 44 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 05-Sep-2002 15:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (Anonymous):
"Spot The Eyetech Lie" is even more fun than "Spot The AInc Lie", since Eyetech doesn't do as many "announcements".
How's this for starters: http://web.archive.org/web/20010609210118/www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/timeframe.php
Archived on JULY 22, 2001!
"The AmigaOne is progressing to schedule, with AmigaOne 1200 boards being released to developers within a few weeks."
"May 2001
* Final costings and end-user pricing set.
* Volume production / trade distribution / end user shipping."
This "AmigaOne" was still going to run "AmigaDE" developed by AInc:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010609203701/www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/information.php
ROTFLMAO! :-D
How about today's lies, half-truths and twisted descriptions of reality from today's Lie-tech site:
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/300502update.php:
"This is in effect a 600Mhz G3 Amiga accelerator ..."
"In fact you can regard the AmigaOneG3-SE as a high performance accelerator that comes with a free, built in computer!"
"a PCI card interface will be available from Escena"
"decided to bundle OS4 directly with the boards which we ship to dealers, mainly to reduce shipping and handling costs - and that has resulted in a small overall price reduction"
"built-in hardware protection to keep OS4 piracy to a minimum, and this has been built into the AmigaOneG3-SE from the outset"
"The 600Mhz 750CXe cpu that is shipped with it is effectively that fastest G3 cpu generally available"
"*Our* engineers"
"*we* have borrowed the latest cpu socket technology from *Apple* in the form of the purpose-designed 'Megarray' socket"
"*we* can make low cost, tightly coupled cpu modules"
"unless you are Apple, G4 cpu's are on very tight allocation"
"We anticipate a high private resale value of used AmigaOneG3-SE boards"
"low cost AmigaOneG3-SE"
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/150302update.php:
"The AmigaOneG3-SE is now production ready"
"orders for discounted developer/dealer/OS4 beta-tester boards/systems are now being taken (but only until by midnight on Sunday 24th March GMT 2002) for delivery in April. This closing date is necessary so that we can assess the volume required" (What, no T-shirts/club memberships needed? :D)
"the consumer release of OS4, probably in May 2002."
"The developer/dealer boards and (at least) the first run of production boards will be shipped with soldered-on G3 PPC CPU's running at 600 MHz which will give a remarkable speed increase over any existing G2 (Blizzard/Cyberstorm) PPC accelerators for the Amiga." (No shit, Brainiac! Why not compare it to a 7MHz 68000, that would look even better, now that you're ignoring modern hardware anyway.)
"Soldering the CPU in place - rather than using BGA sockets or chip carriers - allows us to keep the reliability very high and the costs as low as possible." (This is the same cunt speaking as the one dismissing people mentioning a socket like the MEG-Array 300, and later when he discovers the Teron PX claims to have 'borrowed' this technology from Apple...)
"Things were going nicely on the original A1 design until May/June"
"According to our engineers DDR memory doesn't gain anything in help PPC board design"
"4 x PCI slots + 1 x AGP slot on 2 buses" (Or rather, 3 PCI slots on one bus and 1 PCI and 1 AGP2x slot on one shared bus...)
"Open firmware-compatible BIOS"
"Real time clock" (Not a lie, but damn funny to use as filler in a feature list. Why not mention that the PCB is green too? Yeah GREEN! Wow!)
"the first series of boards will use a 600 MHz G3 CPU and will come with this soldered in place, thereby keeping the costs as low as possible. As G4's fall in price/become more available we may also offer a soldered in place G4 CPU option as well"
"If we can engineer the costs ..." (Yeah, it'd be a damn shame if you couldn't even engineer COSTS!)
"hardly anyone ever changes the CPU to improve the computer - they nearly always have to buy a (at least) a new motherboard as well. We're just being upfront about it!" (You're being a sleazy asshole who doesn't have the guts / are too proud to admit that the design of the stuff you're distributing is totally out of your control)
"To keep prices down and quality up we are having the boards manufactured in the Far East." (No, 'you' aren't having anything manufactured, you're lucky Mai told you where the stuff is made, but as long as you don't have anything to do with it I spose things are just fine)
"a firmware update ROM. This is (obviously) to prevent OS4 piracy" (I hear there are still people swallowing that shit?)
"Is the AmigaOneG3-SE the same as the MAI Teron Cx? No." (Ooooh, how embarrassing!)
"We therefore asked them if they could recommend a design company who was familiar with using the Articia S in PPC motherboard design. They recommended the same (Far Eastern) company that designed their Teron Cx evaluation board." (A.k.a. Bill Mueller @ the U.S. company Mai!!! There's not even any need to lie about this, yet everyone with half a brain knew already back then that he was lying, and it sure as fuck would come back and bite him in the ass. Why the hell did he lie? Did he think people would care about whether company X or Eyetech did the boards they're redistributing? Well, some seem to care about labels and shit, but I mean SANE people. Why Alan, why...)
"The new Eyetech AmigaOne design obviously shares a lot of commonality with the Teron Cx board, but more than a cursory glance at the specifications (ATA speed, integrated ethernet, custom firmware, number of active PCI/AGP slots etc)" (He just won't stop now...)
"the Teron Cx evaluation board. It costs $3900, misses many features of the AmigaOneG3-SE" (It cost $300 w/o CPU and w/o developer support, and why does he compare the "final" A1G3SE/TeronCX with the "evaluation"/"developer" version of the TeronCX/A1?)
"and won't run OS4." (That's not a hardware feature, shithead.)
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/011101update.php (November 2001, the A1-1200/4000 were still being lied about):
"No, we're sorry but the AmigaOne wont be on sale until the New Year."
"Amiga Inc, although not a dot.com company themselves" (ROTFL!)
"Amiga's future is now looking very positive." (LOL! :DDDDDDDD)
"It is true that we had some early setbacks with the hardware development. This was mainly with the AmigaOne's PCB layout, which was not strictly speaking within Escena's field of expertise," (Smart move to make yourself dependent on this. Go engineer some costs will ya!)
"However in May this year, although some work had already started on OS4.0 it became clear that the Amiga Inc's had other priorities ... we, Eyetech, effectively suspended the development of the AmigaOne pending a resolution of the OS4.0 developments." (But your customers were to know that everything was A-OK, on schedule, fine and dandy.)
"Hyperion. This allows the development of OS4.0 to start immediately - and at no upfront cost to Amiga Inc - whilst allowing them to build on the work done in OS4.0 ..." (A.k.a. FROM SCRATCH, fucker. And where do you mention that the Escena A1s are long scrapped?)
"now working flat out once more to ensure that OS4.0 and the AmigaOne can now be launched in tandem early in the New Year.
Thank you all for your patience and understanding."
Fuck you too.
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/introduction.php:
"The IBM/Motorola PPC CPU's deliver far more througput per clock MHz than an x86 cpu" (...if you insist on comparing a PPC7450 with a 286)
"the new AmigaOneG3-SE is anticipated to deliver levels of user responsiveness far greater than that of equivalently priced Wintel or Macintosh computers." (The OS, fucker, the OS. Not the hardware you're flogging.)
"AmigaOneG3-SE can also run PPC Linux" (That's about as meaningful to say as 'this Dell crate can also run Windows'. Big whooping feature, idiot.)
"The AmigaOneG3-SE can optionally connect - via a PCI bridge card - to an Amiga motherboard for access to Classic Amiga chipset hardware." (Just like any PCI-equipped hardware would, if there only were such a PCI card...)
Damn, I don't have the time to go through that site, every second sentence is pathetic. Don't even get me started on the A1 mailing list. Not only do we have the compulsory lying, but he also truly shows what a socially inept, uneducated and incompetent asshole he is. Some samples have been posted to ANN already I believe. |
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