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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« on: July 13, 2011, 01:14:03 AM »
Pretty neat looking even if it is only an Atom based PC.
Why weren't POST messages displayed so we could see if C=USA has even bothered to modify the BIOS?
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 01:50:19 AM »
Quote from: CritAnime;649268
it would appear from this video that they haven't:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EternalPtah#p/u/0/a53UOSotyas

I am pretty sure that there is a picture floating around of the factory doing the vic-slims showing a bios screen with the commodore logo on it. But for the life in me I can't find it now.

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Found it. You can see from the pic ,that the Chinese facility dealing with the vic-slim's has provided, the bios displaying the Commodore logo. Which makes me wonder why they have put it on the slims and not the flagship C64X.




http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum/27-commodore-usa/4257-more-photos-from-cusa?limit=15&start=30&lang=en#4443


Maybe thats another thing that will come on the COS 1.X disk lol. :D

Considering how easy this would be to do, you have to wonder why they didn't bother. Or , for that matter, why they didn't use a board with an option to bypass POST messages and display a graphics image instead (then they could have had a very colorful Commodore4 startup screen)
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 02:12:57 AM »
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You would think that they would, in the very least, want it on the ultimate editions. After all it's $900 worth of computer. I would want Commodore logos flashing at me the moment it start up too.

Every PC I have ever bought came with a fancy logo on boot.

Yes, I can't think of any name brand PC that I ever seen that didn't have start up logos.
I even had one ASUS P4 board that had an optional splash screen.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 02:16:12 AM »
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Yeah, OEM BIOS screens have been near-omnipresent since about 2005, really. It'd be one thing if the demoed machine has just been switched to verbose mode (I do this on all my computers, but then I'm weird like that,) but if they actually didn't even bother...that's just pretty lazy.

At the very least, they could have modified the OEM BIOS to include a Commodore USA tag line.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 02:45:58 AM »
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And that's the weird part - polish (or at least the perception thereof) has been pretty much their entire marketing strategy - "buy it, it's got a nice reproduction case and a nice keyboard!" Quite an oversight, considering...

Yes, design a really high quality custom keyboard and a pretty  well done reproduction case, then slap in a standard motherboard.
Truly an odd decision.
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