• Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
  
• 1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
  
• 1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
  
• 2 (two) 33MHz  PCI slots for additional expansion.
  
• 2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
  
• 4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
  
• 2 (two) serial ports.
  
• 4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
  
• Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
  
• Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
  
• Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1kb of non-volatile storage)
  
• Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
  
• Standard ATX power supply connector.

Hey - what's up with that - I posted this news item first. Damn queue jumper.

So, what's it going to run? OS5? Vista?

@Boot_WB

Sorry bout that, can't cross the boss now can I

If it's any comfort your news item was posted for about a second or so.

@dan.hutch

Ack has stated that it will run OS4 several places allready.


@amigainc etc

i won't invest in theese boards until the lawsuit is over/solved but other than that, looks quite ok and bundling all in one box is a good idea and the price is nice if they can keep it at that unlike the µa1c and XE and SE which all where near double the price of what was announced.

I'm curious about the highend machine though.

Good for them to post the planned motherboard specs as promised, but if they are selling "a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started" I expected to hear also: what case does it come in, how much memory equipped, what graphics card, how much HDD, what keyboard, speakers? I would rather have a naked board and build myself, but just the motherboard isn't what I expected to hear described as "a complete product".

Scott Woodall

@Seer
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If it's any comfort your news item was posted for about a second or so.

Yes, I saw the link, but when I clicked on it I was told "this story does not exist". Ironically, that statement seems quite fitting

@swoodall

I was about to whinge that it needed a PCI graphics card, becuase of course they aren't that easy to get hold of these days, but you just reminded me that it will be shipping with one anyway, so I revoke my whinging

Good price for a complete system.

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i won't invest in theese boards until the lawsuit is over/solved

The same here.

The only thing to do to help Hyperion to develop Amiga os 4.0 now and in the future and to prevent the failure of AMIGA OS 4.0 as we know it today is not to buy this hardware ( that's my opinion and i hope it is also yours )

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@toaks

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Ack has stated that it will run OS4 several places allready.

So what? BBRV makes the same claim.

Nothing will happen until legal issues are resolved - and even then it sounds like if Hyperion lost then OS4 development is effectively abandoned.

So what OS will this run?

More importantly will $489==£489 as per usual, or will we actually pay the real cost of £245 here in the UK?

I wonder how far down the production line the new boards are already? Another 2 weeks or months away from first shipments?

Plaz
(I hate a run-on sentence.)

Hyperion is the programmers of OS4, they are the original developers of OS4. Who on earth is going to maintan and continue develop this ? Amiga Inc. ? Or one man ACK ?

I say no to Amiga Inc.

@nicholas

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So what OS will this run?

IANAL - but I guess if they dont own it they cant claim to make in run on "their" hardware, else they might end up in court...

@Nicholas

Just for you, go ahead and add that EU200 surcharge.

Good question though. I hope it's a true exchange rate for those with euros.

Plaz

Wish there had been more details, but the price is sure nice for a full OS4 ready system.

Please Guys, do not support them.

Please bring back the old Commo Management. Please

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Quote: i won't invest in theese boards until the lawsuit is over/solved The same here.

Solved favoralbly for all I might add..... Me too.

Plaz

Ugh. PCI graphics, one memory slot, and a 400MHz processor with no L2 cache and a crummy 64-bit memory bus? That's not a computer, that's a calculator with delusions of grandeur.

But better than nothing I suppose. Just barely.

i hope they cannot sell (if they produce something first..) nothing.
Amiga Inc is the death of the rest of "Amiga" spirit.
Hope you all boycott them