CommodoreUSA site updated

[Manu]

I don't know if I'm going to buy any of those that's too early to sat..but I must say they do the exact thing I think can be done with Commodore-Amiga names today.

Can we forget already that a startup could pick up from where the old Commodore where and produce new unique hardware ? That's impossible the world has changed too much. If you want to get anywhere without pumping in insane amount of money you got to use off shelf hardware. And off shelf hardware might even last longer than home brew hardware because it's tested more. Also what's under the hood is not of importance to me. Price and how the computer behaves is more important.

The big question mark for me is "What is WB 5 ?" It might be good, it might not. The ideal situation would be of course OS4 or MOS or AROS being sold with these machines. That's not realistic to happen so C=USA got to do something on their own. This is where I'm very sceptic but I don't have a need to flame them already. I want to see it first. If they are financially strong they could always hire good coders to make WB5 a nice distro or whatever you want to call it.

The PC64 is a different beast. That I believe can sell. And I think this is the project C=USA is really about today. Much hangs on how well this goes out to the retro people. Many here say they could just grab a C64 and do it themselves. I have one in my closet but I would never have the heart to break it apart for something like that. Not even if it were a broken one off ebay. If you don't understand why PC64 could sell then maybe the VIC or C64 wasn't your first computer. It's all about nostalgy here.

[Manu]

That's an odd statement... :confused:

If what's under the hood doesn't matter then you be quite happy to buy a load of junk just because it was cheap and behaved well. What happens when the pile of junk you bought breaks down after six months do you continually go on buying junk until you've spent more than you would have if you initially paid out on some decent hardware

One thing I've learnt over the years is if you want the best you have to pay for it, being a skinflint usually costs you more in the long run...

Sorry I did not mean it like that. I meant it doesn't matter if there's AMD Intel PPC or whatever. But the price needs to be reasonable and I they won't get any problem with motherboards if they use well tested off the shelf hardware from known distributon channels . I'm not hoping for Apple prices. For example I don't think my McBook is superior to my Thinkpad just because it cost more.

[Manu]

One thing I don't get. Some complain about the PC64 case looks too old etc. etc.
HUH ? It's SUPPOSED to look 80's, is that news to anyone then tell me all about it.

And the plastic prototype you see on their pages came from a printer. It can't look as good as one that came from a injection moulding machine.

[Manu]

And does anyone take this statement of theirs seriously?

"September 14, 2010 – Commodore USA announced today the selection of Korey Kay & Partners as its Agency of Record for Branding and Creative Development. Projected budget: $30 million."

They have been saying and presenting questionable things for some time now, IN MY OPINION.

It's too early to say really. If they just finished the prototype then they are at the best just about finishing the mould which is a tough job. It has to work in production. Often you have to do test runs send it back to the factory that makes the mould to fine tune it a bit and test it in production again and so on. Kore Kay & Partners maybe don't have anything to market just yet but who knows maybe in 2-3 months we could start to see something. That's my take on it.