New Amiga Computer

May 5 2007, 11:00am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Amiga A1000 computer is a legend. I was 15 years old when it hit the market in 1985. I am not sure though how many people are still out their waiting for a new obscure computer from Amiga.

The company is still alive and they just published specifications for a new Amiga computer.
This new Amiga system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $489.00. (without Monitor).The new Amiga is based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC PowerPC CPU.

Released Amiga Hardware Specifications:

Flex-ATX form factor motherboard based on the Freescale MPC8349E SoC. (400MHz to 667MHz depending on requirements and price target)
1 (one) DDR2 DIMM slot expandable to 1GB using unregistered DIMMs.
1 (one) 66MHz PCI slot for use with readily available graphics cards.
2 (two) 33MHz PCI slots for additional expansion.
2 (two) 10/100/1Gb Ethernet Ports.
4 (four) Hi Speed USB ports.
2 (two) serial ports.
4 (four) SATA ports provided by a Silicon Image Sil3114 controller.
Onboard sound provided by a C-Media CMI8738.
Socketed EEPROM for U-Boot firmware.
Atmel ATC2408A serial EEPROM (1 kb of non-volatile storage)
Dallas DS1339 RTC with battery holder.
Standard ATX power supply connector.

More details on the Amiga site. Via Digital Trends.

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