Takers - One Woman's Opinion of the Amiga Mini

[Magitius]

Old brands do sell...otherwise there wouldn't be a new VW Beetle, for  instance. It borrows a bit from the past...but uses modern common  technology under the hood (VW Golf), instead of a boxer four cylinder  rear engine like the original. So why not buy a VW Golf instead, it's  the same car basically?

And if someone buys a new Beetle and  tells about it on some internet forum, there's a mocking party gearing  up at the vintage Beetle forums?

I think there's room for all camps, all publicity is good publicity and all camps gain from it.

[Magitius]

A car for me personally is a way to get from spot A to spot B and all that matters that it works and does just that. But Amiga is a different thing to me and many others. So can't be compared IMO. Amiga is more than just a computer; it's about dedication, ideology etc. I guess you catch my drift here.

Well, just like you would use a car, many will use a computer. A  Commodore Amiga computer even...but so, enthusiasts will always have  their special thing and be proud of it, but general public uses a pc  Amiga as a tool to get the job done. Commodore USA is not about retro  hobby market, it's about making real business with a little bit of that  Commodore spirit. And no other modern pc computer manufacturer offers a  single bit of that spirit.

In the end, I find it a waste of time  to put such an amount of emotion and energy to the whole issue around  C=USA as seen on this forum. Nothing that will change anything...if  there's anything really to change.

[Magitius]

The new Beetle is built by Volkswagen and is a continuation of the Beetle line.  Volkswagen did not go bankrupt, have it's name sold at a fire sale to a totally unrelated company in another country, which then licensed the name to eight different car companies, the last of which decided to put an old beetle body around a golf cart and call it original.

I don't think average Joe cares, it reads "Commodore Amiga" and they're going to sell a good number of those branded golf carts anyways.