The USB-powered Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single board computer that unleashes laptop-like performance and expandability without the bulk, expense, or noise of typical desktop machines. OMAP3530 processor highlights: Over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS using the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB L2 cache running at up to 600MHz
OpenGL? ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second HD video capable TMS320C64x+ DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz
USB power via complete chip-set with minimal additional power-consuming logic
Expansion capability and power options to satisfy your imagination:DVI-D for connecting digital computer monitors
Compatibility with a huge collection of USB peripherals including hubs, keyboards, mice, WiFi, Bluetooth, web cameras, and much more
MMC+/SD/SDIO interface for memory or wireless connectivity S-Video out for connecting your NTSC or PAL television or wearable visor Stereo audio in and out for a microphone and headphones or speakers Power via typical USB chargers for cell phones from your laptop, from an automobile adapter, from batteries, or even from a solar backpack
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Im getting grumpyer because im nearly 1 year older
Well, I heard Amiga can help with that, both kinds!!!!
Can't hurt!
So, did it just get "Too Hot...."? Hehehe.
And a vacation is good too.
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So you seriously think the Beagle would be an ideal candidate for AmigaOS 4?
Oh, I can hear the screams now
Hi Rigo,
Here is one exceptional thing that may happen.
If it sells in very high numbers, they may introduce Beagle Board II. Imagine, close to 1 GHz, 1 Gig of ram, passively cooled, a few more features, AND a price of $249 US!!!!!!!
It would be very hard to ignore that.
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@Atheist And then (perhaps) a year or two down the line Intel release something which beats the living cr*p out of ARM (Atom is just a first step), and then ARMs dreams of breaking into new markets fades as quickly as they appeared... Well, I just wouldn't bet OS4's future on a major monopolist loosing their umm monopoly. Especially since PPC already tried, but Intel was able to out-spend them for the desktop. :-/
(P.S. I'm not saying that PPC is dead on the desktop, but I doubt that ARM is any better in the long run. If we change CPU family, then IMHO we should change to x86... Which Hyperion have said won't happen at the moment.)
OMAP3530 processor highlights: Over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS using the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB L2 cache running at up to 600MHz
This CPU doesn't seem to be any more powerful (per MHz) than the Sam's low-end/embedded PPC cpu, and in fact slower than Sam due to the lower MHz: Hammer wrote: Quote:
PowerPC 440 @ 667 MHz yields ~1334 DMIPS. 2.0 DMIPS/Mhz. For integer op per cycle, this CPU is not that bad.
And there are MUCH faster/better PPC cpus available: Quote:
PowerPC 7448 @ 1.7GHz yields ~3900 DMIPS. 2.2 DMIPS/Mhz. PowerPC 970 @ 1.8GHz yields ~5220 DMIPS. 2.9 DMIPS/Mhz. It's a pity that this CPU core was abandoned by Apple.
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149 dollars.
The price is certainly great (versus 570 dollars for a Sam440 mobo), and AmigaOS would probably run pretty well off a 4GB memory card, with 256MB of RAM... but I'm not sure I'd want to live without an ethernet port, nor my lightning-fast 500GB SATA HD, nor a DVD writer! And I'm sure some people would miss the lack of a PCI slot, so no Radeon gfx-cards, Catweasel, Soundblaster, etc.
If there was a "high-end Beagleboard aimed at the desktop" then that would probably negate most of my technical objections. (Except for the fact that Hyperion would have to write a high-performance (JIT) PPC emulator for ARM, if we were to keep all our software.)
This CPU doesn't seem to be any more powerful (per MHz) than the Sam's low-end/embedded PPC cpu, and in fact slower than Sam due to the lower MHz:
See later comments. I don't see that as a strength or weakness.
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The price is certainly great (versus 570 dollars for a Sam440 mobo), and AmigaOS would probably run pretty well off a 4GB memory card, with 256MB of RAM... but I'm not sure I'd want to live without an ethernet port, nor my lightning-fast 500GB SATA HD, nor a DVD writer! And I'm sure some people would miss the lack of a PCI slot, so no Radeon gfx-cards, Catweasel, Soundblaster, etc.
Thats why market research is a happy useful thing. You get statistics rather than one man's personal preference. You get to see which quartile that opinion is really in and emphasise or de-emphasise it accordingly.
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If there was a "high-end Beagleboard aimed at the desktop" then that would probably negate most of my technical objections. (Except for the fact that Hyperion would have to write a high-performance (JIT) PPC emulator for ARM, if we were to keep all our software.)
Your objections are only as useful as the quartile they are in. But, lacking any semi objective market research, we don't know.
Most AmigaOS4.0 software still has the source code available for it, so I don't know that "all" is a valid statement. Some, perhaps.
Can you tell me what your technical objections are? I don't actually see any?!?
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