It's not cheap components (at least not with the overheating,) it's poor design. The original release didn't even have the fan pointed anywhere near the board, so it was basically just relying on residual induction from airflow through a completely empty part of the case to move hot air away from the heatsink. I gather they've added another fan, but they also kicked it up to a freakin' i7, as if the Atom wasn't running hot enough...
yeah.. I shouldn't have used the word "cheap" I just meant that it could just be inconsistencies in quality of some of the parts they are using, not to the fault of
Commodore per say. I mean Apple SuperDrives fail too, just saying. But the
real key is Commodore USA taking care of these issues? Not just in future builds
but also for the people who have purchased these C64's?
Thats what I would care about if I bought one. Just look at when Apple first release the Intel laptops, they had a multitude of issues, but I think Apple took care of them for the most part.
Rich
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