| [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
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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 Alfred Schwarz on 16-Jul-2003 10:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (takemehomegrandma):
> They are in full control of it you know!
Yes, just like they are for the Peg1. To have control of something does not mean you will have no problems.
> I don't know what "changes" has been made to the G4 cards?
Ask bbrv, he/she/it/them wrote it. This is why the G4 does work at last in The Peg1.
> Economy of scale?
There is not much to scale with the Peg1. Economy would mean they would simply forget about upgrading the Peg1 and make the Peg2 ready.
And - of course - you do not really know that the G4 cards will work in the Peg2 until you tried it, but without Peg2 you cannot test it. The world is not ideal and some things do not work as they should. Ever heard of the Mercedes A modell story and why it has ESP?
> And why not?
The G3 cards are used, they cannot sell them as new; yes, they can sell them of course.
>> and they could simply make a new G4 card for Peg2 only.
> But why?
Economy of sale.
G4 for Peg1 is totally useless is the Peg2 is right around the corner (and I do not see why anybody would trade her/his Peg1 G3 with a Peg1 G4 if he can have a Peg2 G4 for the same money), Genesi made enough loss with the April1/2 exchanging (and are now trying to get some of that money back with the summer sale) and they will make even more with the Peg2 exchange. They could at least try to avoid making more loss with the G4 upgrade.
I think it would be understandable if Genesi would tell "Sorry folks, there will be no CPU upgrade for the Peg1 but you will be able to trade in your Peg1 for a brand new Peg2" as they did before changing their minds (and changing, and changing...).
Ciao, Alfred |
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