• 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.

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So really what you were looking for was more or less a mid level system. Unfortunately, demand hasn't fallen within that realm. Requests have always been for something low cost or something high end.

I think some of it has do to with how you define mid level. What you are calling entry level, I would call an embedded application board...a board that is designed to run a specific set of applications without need of reserve power for future software releases. What you are calling mid level, I am calling minimum acceptable spec for a home system. What is low cost? I mean...$498 is cheap for a PPC system, but it is horrifically underpowered. In the world of Amiga, we have always lived by the idea of mips over Mhz (or Ghz), and while 1250 is about 4 times that of the most powerful Amiga accelerator, the single core Athlon XP processors are 15-20 times that. I know that we do not need a lot of power to run OS4, but what about flash and java - both of which are needed and should be on the must do list for developers...you are playing mp3's and surfing, and you hit a web site heavy on java and flash...what happens then? Is a 500Mhz 603e powerful enough? food for thought...I know that we don't have adequate support for Java and flash now but what happens when we do? Emulation of other systems and game systems could make use of the hardware power surplus.

I remember how fast and responsive my A3000 with a CSPPC/060 + CVPPC felt and I may end up buying an entry level box (because I could not afford $1500), but I wish it had been a $599 or $699 entry level system with a bit more under the hood.

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