On 6/15/05, Jan Setje-Eilers <setje at smack.eng.sun.com> wrote: > > > What is the availability and price of the Pegasos in Europe? > > From: https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php > > euro 650 ($800). > > So the mac mini is in fact cheaper (faster chip, no dvd burner - not > that a dvd burner is all that interesting for bringup). > > > Wouldn't it be more feasible to use a Mac mini? > > Not that the Mac mini isn't nifty, but I'm wondering to what extent > that is investing in a platform that's on its way out.
I have given this a lot of thought myself. I can assure you that I don't work for Apple or Freescale and certainly not Genesi. The truth is that the mac mini is a nice looking little unit but I defy you to form a relationship with Apple in which you outright tell them that you want to run OpenSolaris on it and will you please give us technical support and help us with the driver issues etc etc. Good luck. The people at Genesi are just simply a lot nicer to deal with and they are more than happy to hand over technical docs on everything that they have. Also, the Freescale PowerPC has a really insanely out-of-control large embedded market ( that was my Hitch Hikers Guide thing there ) and the ODW unit may be $100 more expensive but it is way easier to pop open the case and install what ever you want. Like say a QLogic fibre controller or whatever. It has a pile of PCI slots along with a really nice ATI Radeon graphics card. At this point the people working on the Blastware project have wrung out a pile of details on this and we decided that the Genesi ODW was the best way to go for a pile of reasons. There is a mailing list also that you can join. https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo/blastware-discuss Dennis Clarke Director and Admin for blastwave.org blastwave at gmail.com
