Regardless of Barry being the jerk he seems to be, I think CUSA has delivered what they have promised, unlike most commodore/amiga-related companies have done in the past decades.
People keep saying this like it's some magical accomplishment. If a hobo spent a year screaming at me on the streetcorner about how he was going to sell his terrible chalk drawings for $1000 and then a year later turned out to actually be selling his terrible chalk drawings for $1000, that wouldn't change the fact that they're terrible, or that he spent a year screaming at me about it.
And I don't think the case is so expensive, considering it is a nice quality custom case/keyboard, produced in low volumes, to be sold for old nerds/collectors like you and me. And I think you all know about economies of scale, since you often use this argument to justify things like a Sam board, which is hardware that can be compared to what the PC manufacturers and apple produced some 10 years ago, being sold today for about U$800 (and that includes only a bare board!).
First off,
criminy! How many times do I need to say it? I'm not a defender, fan, or user of the X1000, the SAM, or other overpriced/underpowered PPC boards. Even if I
were a fan of them, I wouldn't be so
dense as to claim that the price tag is actually
reasonable because it's only meant for a small market. Expensive is expensive, and even if you're okay with something being expensive, it doesn't change that fact.
Btw, what I liked the most was the keyboard. Have you seen that it includes a custom keyboard made of Cherry MX keys? Do you know these are high quality mechanical keys manufactured in Germany, instead of the el-cheapo silicone dome keys used in every keyboard that comes with PCs? Do you know that a PC keyboard with these keys cost U$150, for the keyboard alone??
Yes, people have blathered on about that quite a bit. To which I reply: the widely-acknowledged nicest keyboard ever made, the Model M, can be had new for $80, and I seriously doubt Cherry MX is even $70 nicer, let alone $170.
Spammy, where are the reviews and pictures of your personal working 64x? Surely you have ordered one? Surely someone who has done so much for C-USA (Spammy threads, posting false pictures, making false statements) would have been one of the priority shipments?
No, no, don't you remember? dammy has repeatedly emphasized that he's
not at all interested in the C64x, which explains why all he ever posts are shoddy defenses of Barry's behavior and CUSA promo blurbs!
