My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[kedawa]

They really need to ditch the 'Email' and 'Internet' keys.  With so few keys on the thing to start with, it's stupid to waste two of them on redundant functions.

[kedawa]

"Why does it have to be innovative?"  
 
Because this is what sells, not packaging a PC in a pretty case from the 80's.  Sure they will sell a few but once those people get their case, they won't be a returning customer.  
 
"...honour the memory of old Commodore and the Amiga."  
 
I can do that now by using my old skool Amiga system or running WinUAE on my PC.  
 
Going down the road Commodore USA is following will only end in a dead end.  There is no future in the past.  If they really cared about the Amiga and what it stood for they would be looking to the future, working with the community and partnering with them and those companies that are working on Amiga today to make a product for the future (such as a new OS).  Companies don't have to be Microsoft sized to be innovative and in Microsoft's case, they are one of the least innovative companies out there (unless you call their buying of other companies and repackaging their ideas as their own innovative).  I want Commodore and Amiga to have a future and that is why I posted under this topic, to hopefully wake somebody up and see that there can be a future for Amiga but not when you package a PC in a Amiga case and tell people the future is here.  I build my own PC's and I have my own cases (Alienware cases).  Why would I buy a PC from them that will in most likelihood be less than what I have now?  Some people will buy it for the case but the case is about all you're getting with C=USA.

I hope you appreciate the irony of an alienware customer complaining about overpriced PCs in gimmick cases.

[kedawa]

I'm actually a little less peeved than i was a few months ago, but still highly skeptical of CUSA.  I'm looking forward to seeing them get something into the market, regardless of whether it succeeds or fails.  I really just want to see what happens next.
I'll gladly give CUSA's pseudo-amiga OS a spin on my own hardware if they ever actually create such a thing.