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Facts found on Acorn Cybervillage

Published: 20th Jan 2003, 08:47:25GMT Source: drobe.co.uk
By Chris Williams

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A new month, a new Omega deadline

Imagine our shock when we checked Acorn Cybervillage this month and found the rather sensational news that the Microdigital Omega will apparently be released "within the next two weeks". Having reminded ourselves of what an Omega is and thus sweeping previous deadlines under the carpet, we prepared ourselves for the facts behind O'Cybervillage's reporting.

According to the veteran portal's News and Rumours section (nice contrast there), the editor of Archive magazine, Paul Beverley, has informed his readers that the long awaited Microdigital Omega will be priced at 1149 quid, will include a 1GHz XScale processor and be ready within 14 days. This is all, of course, from an undoubtable, reliable and anonymous source close to Paul at Archive. Acorn Cybervillage would appear to have quoted Paul as saying the Omega is supposed to be "a bit faster than the Iyonix". Golly, all this concrete evidence.

Incidentally, we were recently and privately informed of something very similar but you'd hardly expect us to make a song and dance over it, now would you?

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DiehardDuck 20/1/03 11:54AM	A rather cynical report there. Anyone would think you didn't like Cybervillage very much...
Dougal 20/1/03 12:23PM	Gosh, next you'll tell me the register are occasionally sarcastic... -- Dougal
diomus 20/1/03 2:20PM	But, but we wuv CV Chris, drobe.co.uk
acornretro 20/1/03 2:31PM	Well Microdigital have committed to me that I will receive my Omega by the end of January 2003, or I take my business elsewhere. -- Paul Jagger, LONDON
danielbarron 20/1/03 3:45PM	How many vistors a day does Drobe get?
mrchocky 20/1/03 3:55PM	Lots. Thanks for asking
harmsy 20/1/03 3:55PM	Me, I just can't wait to see an Iyonix running alongside an Omega - what a site to behold that will be! -- Andrew Harmsworth, Cambridge. www.gcse.com owner and author
Dougal 20/1/03 4:33PM	*In reply to harmsy:* you need to get out more often -- Dougal
diomus 20/1/03 11:36PM	Putting the two machines side by side would be interesting to see if either machine stands out on particular merits; that is, one machine could be best suited for graphics people, one could be best suited for raw processor power and one could stand out as the most expandable. Etc. Chris, drobe.co.uk
quatermass 21/1/03 10:43AM	Nice to see Drobe reporting real news at last. Veteran am I now? Hmmm. eeh, when I was a pup I used to use a Cambridge Mk14 with a massive 256 bytes of RAM, kids these days won't know what a real computer is if it hit them in the face!
jonix 21/1/03 11:50AM	They probably would, as it would hurt a great deal more that a "fake" one.
monkeyson 22/1/03 1:13PM	There is a picture of the production motherboard - now with added chips - available at http://www.deskvof.nl/riscos/omega/omegapics.html The site was last updated 24th December - before Christmas.
ian 22/1/03 4:51PM	That's a really truly horrid case compared to the cute little original one, but clearly the motherboard there is different to the one we snapped in Livingston.
ian 22/1/03 4:56PM	Livvi mobo pictured here for reference : [Link: www.jeffray.co.uk]
moss 22/1/03 4:57PM	Looks like a replacement case for the larger midi tower (which was very plain), rather than the standard case.
quatermass 23/1/03 3:37PM	The Pharaoh case that Microdigital were using is really horrid. I bought one once and the metal work is really thin and light but it also bends far too easily around the back. I like these new Shuttle type 'shoeboxes' that are going around. It would be nice to get a RISC OS mobo that would fit one of those. I too took a pic of the Omega mobo last year. Here is mine. Perhaps we should have a competition? http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/mdday/
ian 23/1/03 8:07PM	Perhaps we shouldn't.
quatermass 24/1/03 1:00PM	Oh I don't know... if PV can have his Crop Circle pages, why not a Omega Mobo site? www.omega.mobos.com? )