[News] Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC for CeBit Release | ANN.lu |
Posted on 14-Feb-2003 13:52 GMT by Senex | 107 comments View flat View list |
Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2002. Plexuscom a designer and manufactures of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will share a Booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC
Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2002. Plexuscom a designer and manufactures of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will share a Booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
"We are very pleased to work with Plexuscom on the Pegasos," said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of Genesi. "Through this partnership, we look forward to greater collaboration in development and marketing efforts. Plexuscom’s expertise in development and manufacturing technologies and Genesi's system design and architecture will be combined to promote an exciting alternative platform for the Micro-ATX marketplace.
The two companies share a common vision. That is, to create products that are designed to achieve exceptional performance while reducing per-unit costs and time-to-market, commented John Tseng, President of Plexuscom. "Our first priority at Plexuscom continues to be our customers, and we are confident that by aligning with a partner like Genesi, we will rapidly expand our position globally and customers will benefit from the performance, flexibility and scalability of these new system capabilities."
The Pegasos MicroATX features
The Pegasos MicroPPC is a small, low power PowerPC motherboard with the following features:
Takes Single or Dual PowerPC RISC CPU (G3 or G4)
Supplied with 600MHz IBM G3
Mai Logic Articia with bplan April2 Northbridge
VIA Southbridge
AGP X2 slot
3 X PCI slots
ATA100 with two channels with up to four ATA devices
3 X Firewire
10/100 Mbit Ethernet
Audio I/O
SPDIF Out
4 X USB
Parallel
Serial
PS2 Keyboard
PS2 Mouse
Riser connector
OpenFirmware based BIOS
Supplied with MorphOS, Debian Linux and Mac-on-Linux
Other operating systems in development.
Genesi and the Pegasos, Innovation for the Future
Genesi is a technology development and system integration engineering company located in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France and headquartered in Luxembourg. Genesi also operates through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Sates and the United Kingdom, Genesi USA Inc. and Genesi UK Ltd. In addition to the Pegasos, Genesi has also developed the new Operating System, MorphOS, for PowerPC microprocessors. Designed for the Pegasos, MorphOS is a highly responsive, low overhead, desktop system, which runs hundreds of different applications.
Plexuscom, A Technology Power House
Plexuscom designs, manufactures, markets and delivers broadband Internet access solutions, Information appliance and USB peripherals.
Plexuscom's extraordinary commitment to customer needs is evidenced by its devotion to the production of customized products for diverse regional markets. Plexuscom is dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, reliable, low-maintenance and affordable high-speed solution for worldwide markets.
Plexuscom's strategic objective is to remain a market leader the development, implementation, supply and support of broadband Internet access, information appliance solutions, and USB peripherals.
Contact Information:
Plexuscom Contact:
John Tseng
john.tseng@plexuscom.com.tw
www.plexuscom.com
Genesi Contact:
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
www.pegasosppc.com
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Posted by Anonymous on 16-Feb-2003 16:25 GMT | In reply to Comment 66 (greenboy): Well It wasn't denied by the german employees of Genesi that this
http://www.morphos-news.de/index.php?lg=de&nid=289&si=1
is not THE 'new Genesi Pegasos PPC Computer' which will be first time announced at the CeBIT. Their employees would easily nail this missassumption down in it's roots but instead doing this they suggested me to make my own thoughts and until yet they haven't explicitly denied this not to be the official Pegasos PPC as shown officially the first time at the worlds biggest computer show on earth. This is really a problem in my eyes because the JOE USERS may missassume the intent of this hardware and equalize it with a STB (the way it looks like). The only thing if you read the replies of the german employees carefully is harden more and more that THIS is exactly THE hardware.
The Picture shows a Device which looks like a CD-Player at least the case suggests that. No slots where you can plug CDROMS, DVD, Diskdrives in. Even the height of that shown Case assumes me that you can't put standard components inside it. From what I was told is that the whole layout is slightly differently which hardens the theory because the CPU can't be put into the slot. This leads to my missassumption that Genesi is only abusing the Amigamarket with their morphing system but the main intention are not Ex-Amigans it's probably the STB which none of us are interested in. Regardless of the fact that WE the Amiga community know that the Hardware can be used in standard Desktop Cases and used as full worthy computers. But they sell this hardware that way (as full worthy Amiga derivates) only in the AMIGA community, but not outside of it. The target customer outside probably never know about it's roots and use it as whatever else. This is hard for us programmers since programming software only counts and calculates if you get users back to the old Amiga (to the alternative) as more people come back to the Amiga-Derivate Desktop machine as more it values and calculates and makes sense for us developers to write software. Writing software for a community of 1000 remaining Amigans and 950 Softwarepirates (sorry only guessed value to make my point clear) doesn't value on the long run since the intent of Pegasos as Amiga-Derivate is only known to us. Buying such a Hardware and writing Software for it is just a waste of time. Thats my point. |
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