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[Senex]

In two comments at MorphOS-News.de, Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi announced the Pegasos III with a PPC 970 CPU for early next year.

[seer]

Eh.. Shouldn't Genesi at least wait after the Peg 2 has been released/sold before announcing this ? Aren't you afraid this will hurt sales ? Even a trade in isn't something lots of buyers believe in (IIRC C= Benelux and in other countries did similar trade ins but weren't that succesfull).. Also, sounds like the A500+ -> A600 -> A1200 mess...

[Warface]

5 months + what the term "early" permits, with the Pegasos II unreleased. A strict timeline. Are the chips permitting the use of 970 are available?

[PulsatingQuasar]

So this is announced as news? Some comments on a forum! :-?

That is not news. A press release is news. This is rediculous.

I allready don't read many threads anymore because I know where they will end but if this kind of thing continous, I think I will scrap reading Amiga news sites all together.

[greenboy]

Of course you are right. The statement has not nearly enough Officialese, and the 970 is like, totally an old-hat bore...

[downix]

@seer

Targeting different markets. The announcement of a possibility of a G5 at this time shows potential customers from outside of the Amiga community that Genesi is working on both entry-level as well as workstation-grade solutions. Even just off-handed as this comment is, it adds momentum behind Genesi's efforts to enlarge the community.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ PulsatingQuasar

So this is announced as news? Some comments on a forum!

That is not news. A press release is news. This is rediculous.

The Pegasos III was news to me (and really nice news too)! :-)

This is the nice thing about the community forums IMO; the close and "inofficial" contact with corporate representatives. Pretty unique and I think very appreciated by most of us.

Oh, you want more "formal communication"? Well, perhaps you missed the "see you at AmiWest! ;-)" part?

More info will follow there I suppose! Man, that is going to be one great show! I whish I could be there ...

[KennyR]

My vapor detector is beeping.

[CodeSmith]

Yeah, I'm not sure of the wisdom of announcing rev 3 of the product when rev 2 is not on sale yet. Especially when rev 2 is a dinosaur and rev 3 is current hardware.

Unless they're doing a 68050 and scrapping the Peg 2 in favour of the Peg 3. That would be a smart move, freeing up resources from the lesser of the two projects to beef up the better one. I mean, why buy legacy when you can wait a few months and get a current system? Since they own MOS, operating system support shouldn't be a problem either (unlike x86, which goes 64 bit when Bill Gates says it does...)

[Dan]

Isn´t the STB and the handheld more important?
Maybe it should read PegIII prototype in january 2004.

[amigamad]

pegasos 2 is not worth buying now if pegasos 3 is going to be available and pegasos 2 is not even out and its being replaced thats more new boards than i have had in my pc.

[MarkTime]

Hey amigamad, after the G5, there will be a G6, after the G6, there will be a G7.

oh gosh, you won't buy a computer for the next decade...sorry about that.

But seriously, the same is true of the AmigaONE, they will continue to update it with faster speeds and newer processors over time.

[Argo]

BBRV rarely if every isssues press releases. They seem to find it easier to announce or let slip things in open forums.

[iamaboringperson]

damn, im not sure weather i should go for the Peg II, or wait a short while for the peg III, i would much prefer the III...

[Panthro]

I was on a spanish singles chat forum and although
I dont speak spanish when I herd some guy from
amiga inc. say Amiga 4 I think it's obvious that
this product will be out soon...... :-o

even though the Amiga2 and Amiga3 are not
out yet I give full credit because of an official
let slip........ ;-)

Well lets just see what happens :-)

Amiga can now compete with BBRV in the
number of vapour hardware products again....

.......I'm sooooooo releaved