Re: The A9's a long time coming

In message <4dedf50684Colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Colin Wood <Colin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <5616efed4d.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, george
> <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message <4dede241b9usenet-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Segfault
>> <usenet-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > In article <ac07e4ed4d.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, News poster
>> > <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >

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>
>> I fully agree with all the comments made by the two previous posters.
>> My only regret about buying an Iyo last July is that I did not do it
>> two years earlier.
>
> and that's the rub, isn't it? It seems a lot of money for a machine
> that's getting quite long in the tooth. Is it true that its architecture
> makes it difficult (impossible?) for Castle to upgrade its hardware?
>
> Regards to all,
>

Bearing in mind your sig discloses use of a machine getting on for its
12th birthday, pots and kettles spring to mind. The Iyonix's basic
architecture, in terms of UDMA, USB2, memory and disk speed, and
screen size, resolution and colour depth, is a generation ahead of the
RiscPC, and its performance reflects this. I bought mine last year for
£799 and don't begrudge a penny of it. And before someone else points
it out, I know a VRPC-equipped PC would have offered similar
performance for the same or less money, but that isn't a Risc OS
computer. As to Iyonix hardware upgrades, in terms of the processor
you are right - it doesn't offer the same flexibility as the RPC, but
the graphics cards and peripheral systems such as the CD-ROM can be
upgraded, and I expect they will be in due course.

George

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