[Web] Genesi: Small number of Pegasos I / G4 available | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Jul-2003 04:11 GMT by Martin 'Senex' Heine | 117 comments View flat View list |
Now available is the first CPU upgrade card for the Pegasos. Taking advantage of the flexible, expandable and open architecture, Genesi is delivering a G4 upgrade card to take your computing experiences to the next level!
Pegasos G4 CPU Card
Now available is a processor card sporting the Motorola 7447 running at 1Ghz or more. The 7447 is the latest in the 4th generation (G4) PowerPC lineup from Motorola, offering an improved performance base over the previous generation (G3) series of processors. In addition to a larger cache, the 7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and most of all, a SIMD unit called the Altivec. Altivec offers a dedicated on-chip vector engine, capable of delivering over a Gflops (billion floating point operations per second) while remaining affordable to the average user.
We have prepared a PDF document (4.7meg) describing many of the G4 processor's architectural benefits.
A small number of Pegasos 1 / April 2 systems are available with this G4 card for 499 Euros.
Please contact bbrv@genesi.lu if you are interested in this offer.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 16-Jul-2003 10:22 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (Alfred Schwarz): > I think the funny thing about that whole CPU card is that Genesi says the
> same CPU card will work in Peg1 and Peg2 but there is still no Peg2 prototype
> to test it.
LOL, so you mean that Carda & Co sit's in their workshop and *HOPES* that the Pegasos II specifications in the end (if the gods are nice, and the planets are in the right position) will turn out in a way that makes it possible for the CPU cards to work?
:-)
A clue: Since they are designing it themselves, they know the design! They are in full control of it you know!
> As they had to make changes to the G4 card to make it work with at least some
> April2 Peg1 boards I wonder if it will really work that way.
I don't know what "changes" has been made to the G4 cards?
> But I do not see a real benefit from using the same CPU card in both models,
Economy of scale?
> they surely do not want to put the old G3/600MHz in the new Peg2
And why not? The Pegasos II mainboard together with a G3 CPU will be available for 299EUR. The G4 entry model will ship for 499EUR (all prices without VAT).
Not everyone is in need of a fast (and more expensive) G4 you know. There might be situations where a €299 G3 could be more suitable.
Who knows, perhaps there will even be an even lower performance PPC 405 based CPU card (or whatever CPU is going to be used in the STB's and similar devices) so that developers can get a better feeling how their applications works at that speed?
> and they could simply make a new G4 card for Peg2 only.
But why? |
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