[iyonix-support] Re: iyonix 2 or not

Allan Dawes a écrit :

mark.stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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          John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


To put it bluntly, we could not make the sums add up! - however hard we
tried.
Before totally abandoning the idea, would you consider running a 'survey' online we can fill in gauging interest at different price points, etc. You have the mailing lists, your customer/ex-customer contacts and the SE show coming up, so would at least be able to be gauge if/what the market interest is and whether it is commercially viable.
Would Iyonix also consider the idea of getting RISCOS onto a portable ARM device if they could presell enough units.
As the owners of RISCOS, you are stil a focal point and one most likely to take the market forward (IMHO). 

Regards,

MArk
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I think a survey would be a very good idea. I recall my brother was invited by Acorn when the RiscPC was first put on the spotlight, so that they could get feedback. It was in fact he who suggested 16bit audio, which then got everyone in the room talking.
Arm tech has one real bonus over the X86/X64 platform - low power consumption. The reason why Acorn did not do a successor to the A4 laptop, was because at the time it was expensive, bulky, battery technologies were not as good as they are today. Not to mention that low res gray scale display would put anyone off. If an Iyonix 2 could be built to be compact to fit in a laptop, leaving out expansion slots, and then for the desktop system, a full board including the expansion slots. I can only imagine the problems already with a laptop version - who's casing do you use, and how available is that in 24 months time. Still portability is, in my opinion, one way forward if it's not going to keep up with other faster platforms. And no I don't want to run an emulator under windows. The emulator is fine and all, It's just Windows is heavy on power and does all the things that make most of us beat our laptops like Mr Faulty and his car.
I don't know much about the fast pci bus now available on the PC, but the idea of developping a card that you just plug in your pc sounds interesting to me. It would save a lot about usb etc ... if RISC OS running for the daughter board ARM processor could make a bridge with the already available PC hardware. 
Of course it would reduce cost.
Regards,
Xavier.

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