C64x Unboxing videos

[commodorejohn]

As I've said more than once, It's not really my cup of tea but at the end of the day, it's a real product that they got to market. You have to give them credit for at least that much.

I dare say It'll probably sell reasonably well too.

Big farkin' deal, you can say the same thing for Michael Bay's Transformers movies, but that doesn't make them good.

As for the OP, big whoop. It's a thing that you bought, and it came in a box, and you took it out of the box. Bully for that, I guess, but the question of whether this was real or not has never been more than a minor nitpick in the saga of why folks around here are not fond of CUSA.

[commodorejohn]

Just thought I would share my unboxing video of my new C64. If you love the videos of one switched off then your gonna flip over a c64 running

http://youtu.be/Nl5ecU_1az8

You, sir, get a cookie. Notional or actual, your choice

[commodorejohn]

Look at where the fan is and look at where the air vents in the case are. I bet 90% of what the fan is doing is sucking cool air in from the bottom vents and blowing it right out the back. There is no way any of the airflow is getting anywhere near anything that is actually getting hot.

Wow, yeah. That's...it's not even pointing in the direction of the board! Granted, Atom hardware isn't going to run blazing hot like heavier-duty stuff, but that's still a pretty gross oversight.

[commodorejohn]

I couldn't care less about who they are and what they did.

Well, you did ask why everybody hates CUSA - that's basically the majority of the reason. They've been strutting around like King Shit of Shit Mountain for over a year now and acting douchey to anybody who doesn't play along with their delusions of grandeur, and frankly it's soured a lot of people on them. I myself came into this with no particular beef with the company, but after the past year of watching their behavior (to say nothing of their assorted sycophants) I'm pretty much rooting for massive commercial failure.

I think the HW looks great. With the right SW on it, it could be better.

The hardware really isn't great, though - it's an (at best) mid-range PC board in a "Special Collector's Replica Edition" breadbox case that they're charging $250 for. (Wonder what the production cost on the case is?) I did a price breakdown in another thread, if you want a PC you can get one many times better than the expanded C64x models for less than the price of the base model. And if you want a C64 case, you can DIY for far less than the cost of their overpriced Franklin Mint crap.

As for the software, they're all talk. They made a lot of noise about running a "custom OS" after using Ubuntu as a stopgap, and now it turns out all they actually meant was producing a Commodore-skinned Ubuntu variant (as many people here predicted right from the get-go.) They're not going to actually put any effort into the software.

[commodorejohn]

Fun fact: The flight computer aboard the space shuttle has less than 1% of the power of the Xbox game console.

Fun fact: the Shuttle computers don't RROD.

[commodorejohn]

I dont know why they same handful of people consistently hijack these threads and ruin the fun.. its so lame. Just because its not your vision of something cool no need to always rain on the parade. Its beyond rational or justifiable behavior at this point.

If the parade hadn't been dragging on for a goddamn year and being loud and obnoxious, I might not be so inclined to rain on it.

*many words*

An excellent restatement of the argument, but I'm afraid all I see is MONSTERPIECE THEATRE!

What most of us are waiting for, is an implementation of the C64 on a FPGA in the way the Natami is for the Amiga...

Yeah, that would be pretty great. I'd have to think that a C128 reimplementation plus a 65816 core equivalent to the SuperCPU would be easily doable on inexpensive FPGA hardware...I'd be all over that, let me tell you.

[commodorejohn]

Just wish people would give more support to projects like FPGA Arcade and NatAmi.  If there's a true successor to the Amiga legacy, it's these guys like Mike/Yaqube and and the NatAmi team down there in the trenches with soldering irons and compilers blazing.

Quoted for absolute, utter truth. Would that more people in this community valued things like creativity, skillful architecture design, and community spirit more than they do a rented brand name.

[commodorejohn]

What get's me is that poor Steve Jones did this (and is still doing it) with his Imica series PCs for AROS.  Why isn't Spammy and the C-USA camp jacking off over his efforts?  He's been doing it modestly for over a year and putting money back into driver development.

But he doesn't have The Name, man! Who cares about all that crap like community involvement and serious development work when you don't even have the Holy Name rented? Where's the sense of priorities!?

[commodorejohn]

I'd love to see their sales figures. And what about the tens of thousands of units going to big box retail or was that all bullshit too?

Yeah, that would be interesting to see. You'd think if that was really true, they'd be running around crowing about it and patting themselves on the back for being so successful...

[commodorejohn]

The only other thing that I find even remotely interesting is the price. $600? Ive seen that figure a few times, is this accurate?

Actually, $595 is just for the basic model, with 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, no wireless, and no optical drive (a.k.a. barely better than my $300 three-year-old netbook.) If you want something even approaching a modern PC, you get to pay from $695 to $895 for the privilege :lol:

Now each to thier own, but if Im gonna get screwed for an extra 350-400 then I want a high class busty blonde nymphomaniac involved in the screwing.

I hear that for $1200, you get Barry in a wig...but it's Commodore-licensed, which means it must be worth it!

[commodorejohn]

Forget the busty blonde nympho call girl, you'll have just enough left for a toothless crack whore, if you're lucky. maybe.

Well speak of the devil! Say, as long as we've got you here, Barry, exactly what will "Commodore OS" have that vanilla Ubuntu doesn't?

[commodorejohn]

I mean I can't imagine a worse way to  put forward a public face for the company. If these niche communities  mean so little than why pop in? Devote your energy to promoting your  product elsewhere, because the rest of the computing world...and I mean all   computer manufactures don't have their CEOs pop into random forums  to write stupid crap to people.

I'm honestly starting to wonder if that whole "screw the CBM/Amiga community, they're not the target market" thing isn't working out so well for him...the sycophants have been blathering incessantly here from day one, but it's only recently that Barry himself has started popping 'round...are we all you have left, Mr. Barry, sir? 'Cause that would be pretty damn funny.
 

The delorean unfortunately was never relevant, unless you wanted to pretend you were marty mcfly.

I'm sorry, there are people who don't want to pretend they're Marty McFly?

...well, actually, I'll take Doc Brown, myself.

[commodorejohn]

Would you go on ABC Morning News to demo your product and blurt out "Such a value!  Buy our 64x and still have enough money left over to buy a toothless crackwhore!".  

No, you wouldn't, so don't do it here.

Well, on his own forum he questioned someone's sexual performance, pressed for details about preferences, and said that he'd been spying on the guy and his wife in coitus, for asking a question about pricing...honestly, whore talk doesn't even come close to topping that.

[commodorejohn]

Jealousy is an ugly thing.

Yes, I'm totally jealous of a system I beat the ever-loving pants off of for $80 less than the price of the base model. How will I cope?

[commodorejohn]

Well, who's to say that's a real picture? Given how the other factory photos turned out...