Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 750 from 2003/2/14
From: Earth
Hi BatteMan, we thought you said "BYE!" so what are you still doing here?!
Actually, we rather you stay, so before you and your friends have another temper-tantrum did you see this:
From: Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck <bbrv@genesi.lu>
Date: September 1, 2004 4:22:33 PM CEST
To: <morphos@ml.morphos.net>
Subject: Re: [morphos] Re: Wondering about Pegasos upgrade...
Hi Alan, hi Dorothy, hi MorphOS list...
Yes!
As we have said MANY times there will be an opportunity to upgrade.
It will cost 200 Euros.
It will require an exchange of the Pegasos I G3 you have for the Pegasos II G4 that we will provide.
The Pegasos II is about to have a significant cost reduction, but this cannot be done until we fulfill our outstanding purchase orders.
We plan to be able to implement the upgrade offer after the Freescale SNDF schedule is complete in Asia.
The only details of SNDF Japan (21 October) and SNDF China (25-26 October) are here:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=02M0ylfVS0lM0ynypzMP
It is very difficult for us to speak publicly about a price reduction and an upgrade offer when we are selling the Pegasos II as shown here -- -- to corporate customers for $1400!
http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
The good news is that Freescale and *maybe* IBM too are finally behind the platform. For example, in September, Freescale will be providing 100 ODW to developers that Genesi/bplan has designated and 75 more for pilot projects, including Avalanche that will be featured again here in the September issue:
http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsletter/
If you missed the first article it is here:
http://www-1.ibm.com/technology/power/newsletter/august2004/article3.html
Freescale actually bought these machines and then is turning around and giving them away to support the platform. It would be hard to imagine greater support and now you and others may understand why we wait to activate the upgrade opportunity.
By the way, MorphOS is very important to Freescale and it looks like IBM is now also becoming interested. They have ask for an article for the Nov/Dec issues of both newsletters.
BTW, here is a picture of the new Pegasos.
http://images.genesi.lu/pegasosnew.jpg
The idea is that this complete system will sell for $899 - $999. There will be a wireless PCI card inside and a module to plug into your home TV set, so you can leave it on the "desktop" and still use it for fun on the tele.
Best regards,
Raquel and Bill